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COMING OUT STANDING UP 48
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OUTSPOKEN
Gays 1, Helms 6
A erioua threat to the phone-sex tnduary and much of the
(ay press was lifted last week when a federal fudge ruled
that a Jesse Helms-sponsored law banning phone sex
would be found unconstitutional The ruling prevents
the govern m ent from enforcing the taw, which was scheduled to
go into effect on Aug. IS.
In Ns deoaton, federal Judge Pattenon of the Southern District of
New York ruled that the Helms Amendment was unconstitutionally
vague, vtoteed the Hr* and fifth Amendment* rranvoon s on prior
rcaratm and vlotaed the first Amendment by fading to employ the
The ruling is the culmination of a series of events which
unfolded after the lesbian and gay communty was alerted to the
seriousness of the threat to phone-sex services by an article in this
magazine last February. It's a good example at how gay groups,
legal and civil-rights groups, the press and concerned citizens can
effectively cooperate to combat the anti-gay, anti-sex forces that
continually threaten our existence.
Soon after the query, Does the End of Phone Sex Mean the End
at the Gay PreaaT appeared an our com bo. J 5. Feb 251 an unusual
coalition formed, k ornwacd of the p honeaex operators snd their
lawyers, members of the lesbian and gey press, AIDS service organtza-
goups. Irabtsn and gsy legal defense groups. raai^a cM tfoert a r a n s
Certain of these groups and individuals are sometimes at odds
on other issues, and the coalition they formed—SAFE
CALL—included some strange bedfellows ACT UP and GMHC. for
example, or Out Wire* and the Natttt
It was a coalition in the best seme at dun word: a group of
diverse mtereats united in one common endeavor, namely, defeating
concerned with the law's effect on safer-sex practice* ethers consid¬
ered fe an example of governmental homophobia Some focused on
ts muzzling of free speech, others an is effect on the gsy press and
sfl others on is effect on thee private hianest interests
Whatever their reasons (and ana were inrpired by a combwa-
non of all these reasons), eve r yooc worked together, pooled
resources snd showed what can be done when unity prevails.
Activists organized demonstrations and drew press attention to the
threat. AIDS service providers and pollticam lobbied those in
power Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and the New
York Civil Liberties Union effectively assisted private lawyers in
shaping a cohesive legal strategy. Phone-sex users gave up
anonymity and volunteered to testify « court And private business¬
people paid a Anandal price lo protect their investments
The happy result is a ruling that ends the threat to phone sex
and the gay pr ess at least for the moment and tets a firm prece¬
dent to rebuff future a ttempts to km* our g pce e fa It's a ruing dal we
al paid for—through our support for groups lire Lambda and the
NYOJU, as well as GMHC, ACT UP. FAIRFAC HEAL Body Potttive
and others—and it's a victory that we should al be proud of. ▼
4t ©UTP-EEK August 29, 1990
LETTERS
$»rai?rt Ho* Debate
fire Reyes' very Interest¬
ing article. -Queerty Speak¬
ing.* and the reprint of me
anonymous article. *1 Hate
Straights* (no. 59. Aug. 15).
rtioUd be reread by d. after
the anger has subsided.
Older people have bolt
careful defenses against
bias and bashing; these
seem threatened by reck¬
less words and actions.
There are people who can
cffferenttate between hate
and anger and who resent
being Included In ’hate*
groups. There ore people
who beieve there are ways
to become (berated with¬
out violence, hatred and
Isolation.
Older gays and lesbians
don't hove chicken and are
therefore unprepared for the
rebeBon that most parents
hove eiperlenced. We have
to learn, as parents do. that
young people have new
Ideas and techniques and
act without knowledge of
Ihe part or fear of the future.
To many of us. their bold
Ideas and actions seem fool¬
hardy and dangerous. We
are called "gay-libertarian
conservatives.* We might
want to rein In this wild
bunch and might hope for a
more tempered mouthpiece
than OutWeok. with Its
provocative headlines: *1
Hate Straights.* 'Queer
Notion.* etc.
But after the Initial fear
and anger have subsided,
we might rereod the articles
and reafce that most of us.
young ond old. want the
same things, that ochlevlng
ou goad may be done ki a
number of ways, that the
young always want to move
faster and the old slower,
ond that we must not hurt
eoch other.
Herbert/. Cohen. M.D.
Manhattan
I hate Doma Summer.
I hate Jesse Helms.
I hate gay-bashers.
I hate rapists
I hate sexist homo¬
phobes
I hale homelessness.
I hole poverty.
I hole hunger.
I hate the U.S. govern¬
ment's genocldal Inaction
during the AIDS crisis.
But I don't hate rtrdQhtrt
ACT UP1 Fight Bock l Fight
AJDSI
Thanks for pubfehlng ihe
brilliant essay *1 Hate
Straights.* Uke most people.
I Judge whether or not I love
or hole others by a persond
criteria, not their race, re*-
glon or sexual orientation.
But mere Is certainly a pioce
In our queer consciousness
for a rttle vcidated rage at
the system that has op¬
pressed us and Wed us for
so long. Hopefully, even
straights who are our Mends
will pause and think when
they read the essay and
raise thek consciousnesses a
bit about their own unac¬
knowledged homophobia.
Because if truth be fold,
even In the most prog res
rtve. enightened circles. I've
never met a white who
wasn't racist, a man who
wasn't sexist or a straight
who wasn't homophobic.
That's Just Ihe way It Is.
ChariesLar&y
Manhattan
Homosexuals who In¬
dulge b the rhetoric of hate
simply reveal that If they'd
been born straight, they'd
be bashing queers. How can
Nina Reyes talk about our
'splendid Interests* (as If
there were such o homosex¬
ual consensus today) whle
supporting such self-destruc¬
tive bitterness: Just because
they're Ignorant and bigot¬
ed doesn't meon we have
to be.
I'm perfectly comfortable
being homosexual; pride Is
not an Issue. I see no reason
to feel otherwise. When I
love a man. I see It as one
human being loving another
That Is what Is rare end glori¬
ous! As soon as gays and les¬
bians get over thinking that
homosexuaity is something
special (a notion forced on
us by those who would
oppress us) and start creat¬
ing a averse and exemplary
approach to Ife and being
In society Industve of hetero¬
sexuality, then, and only
Ihen. w« come a change.
Hugh Steers
Manhattan
When Nina Reyes Inter¬
viewed me (for her article
•Queerty Speaking* (no. 59.
Aug. 15). she said she was
having trouble getting gays
and lesbians to come out In
opposition to the 'I Hate
Straights* sentiment. I gave
her an earti-most of which
never mode It Into print
except as the ^attributed
objections of. presumably, a
backward-thinking minority.
Reyes never informed me
that she Intended to write a
defense of the broodsheef.
using only brief. strateglcc*y
ploced quotes from her
Interviewees.
What she dkl tel me was
that a male ACT UP member
stood up at a meeting and
Identified himself as one of
the essay's anonymous writ¬
ers. Hb motivation In writing
the piece, she said, was to
prove to his fellow activists
that he reerty hod anger and
passion under Ns calm exte
rior. However, the essay was
irdgned. Reyes said, so that
It would have the feeing of
'coming from all of us.*
Wouldn't you like to know
who these people are who
STOMMU WOTS St >*t*ti(
August 29.1990 OLfTTWEEK 5
have appointed themeetves
our*x*eapenons?
Reyes' article suggests
mat the bash of this mess Is
an argument that ACT UP Is
having wtth Itself, espedafy
In the advent of Queer
Nation. It Is Important to
know so that you can melee
up you mind whether or not
this Is your light.
The overall message In
the broadsheet and the
Reyes defense seems to be.
‘Go ahead and hotel Maul
feel better tor Itl* (Moreover,
you'l be po«t1ca*y correcfl)
Sounds like cheap therapy
to me—like how good the
bashers feel when they ran¬
domly take their rage out on
gay men or lesbians on the
street. Okay, do we afl feel
better now? Have we
proved how tough we are?
Now. can we get back to
the real complexity of our
Issues and of our lives?
fvo Vbo Asanfewoa
Manhattan
While l thought the
essay. 'I Hate Straights.*
was terrific and challeng¬
ing. I also worry that we
may be drifting Into the
same blaming syndrome
that has afflicted so many
other oppressed mmorttles. I
see an around me people
of certain ideologies who
have given themselves over
to a mind-set wherein they
blame society—white soci¬
ety. mole society—for all
fhek problems, thereby let¬
ting themsetves off the hook
as far as solving their own
problems. But the truth Is
that no one can solve
another's problems. We are
each responsible for our¬
selves and our own commu¬
nities.
In the case of gays and
lesbians, this Is particularly
Important to remember,
because Intemcteed homo¬
phobia Is far more oppres¬
sive to us than straights are.
Far more. If It weren't for
Internalized homophobia,
first of a*, we'd a« be out.
totaky, completely, blatantty
out. Al of the problems that
'outing* Is supposed to
solve, which are real,
treacherous problems.
wouldn't exist In the first
ploce. And the apologies tor
being gay and the self¬
oppression and put downs
within the community
wouldn't happen either.
It's certainly useful to
point out homophobia as It
exists h straights and to say.
•There It h. I hate It.* But let's
not forget the homophobia
that exists within our own
house. Even I we were able
to ‘cure* every homophobe
tomorrow, we'd still hove
ounelves to dec! wtth.
MaricCattman
Brooktyn
In response to your recent
articles about Queer Nation
and *l Hate Straight*:
Queer Natton/PhHodet-
phia will be sponsoring
actions against the 1991 Mbs
America m Atlantic City and
at this year's special com¬
memorative contestants'
v*t to Phlodetprta, the aty
of Brotherly love.
We have three reasons
tor protesting, In addition to
discriminatory policies to¬
ward women and queers:
They'D be here, they're not
queer, they're not fatxious.
DcrAd&nt
Kxnder
Quier Ncrtton/PNodtlpNa
PMtoMpMa
BonewaNng
We (the Stonewal Demo¬
cratic Club) were dbtressed
to see your unf<* and Inac¬
curate attock on our orga¬
nization In the August 8 (no.
$8) Issue of OutWdek. We
want to let you and your
readers know our side of
the story.
First, we are as gay and
proud as you and others In
oucomminltyare.
Second, we work very
hard to lobby elected and
pu»c offlctob to oddress ou
community's issues ond
agendas. We also have a
very successM record In sup¬
porting winning corxfdates
who care about ou Issues.
We worked very hard to
get openly gay candidates
like Richard Fallld elected
to the state Supreme
Court, Joan Lobls to the
CM Court and Frank Clem¬
mons and Philip Reed to
dbtrtct leoder positions.
Over the years we have
worked closely with the New
York State lesbian and Gay
lobby, the New York aty
Gay and lesbian Antt-Vio¬
lence Project, the Coaltton
for Lesbian and Gay Rights
and olher community organ¬
izations.
We strongly beleve that
voting tor someone exclu¬
sively because of toe* sexual
orientation Is wrong. Being
gay or lesbian Is very Impor¬
tant to us. but It Is wrong to
use that as the only reason
to vote tor a oandkJate. It Is
wrong tor our community to
be held hostage to the ego
kips of gay and lesbian can¬
didates who hove little
chance of winning, no real
accomplishments, no ap¬
peal outside certain factions
of the gay community and
no legislative program other
than the catch phrases they
Blurt Out
OUT VILE JELLY, WHERE IS THY GUSTER NOW...
The staffers st Star Command Bkirt Out have decided to hurts ths impressively misogynist
•Women We Love* issue of Esquire into hyperspece, so that it may forever cling to some
airless, dark star. How appropriate that these dickless wonders (one shudders to think that
any women work at Esquire) should pick Laura Palmer's corpse to be their "Woman of the
Year' that they prefer Reno, Winnie Mandela and Connie Chung as 'concepts* and slag off
the 'girls' of Mill* Collage with tha following brilliance: 'All right guys, we meet at midnight
under the statue of Andrea Dworkin, proceed to the De Beauvoir Quadrangle for our
demonstration, then off to the Bea Arthur dorms for ths panty raid.'
BLOWING CHUNKS AND LIGHTING HOLES..
Vanity Fair's James Wolcott is doing his best to confront his blind spots this month, albeit in
some rather amusing terms. In a piece tided 'Starlets in Distress: They're young and sexy,
but they're not bimbos—they can act Someone should tell Hollywood,’ Wolcott seems a bit
too mesmerized by his own closely crafted vernacular 'The men wear war paint sharing a
Coke and a smile as they blow chunks of daylight through evil drug lords, while the women
ere wedged somewhere in the back-aeet squealing. At a star, [Elizabeth McGovern! was
shy as a milkmaid. As a supporting actress, she leads wnhafrm chin. She lit a hole si a les¬
bian outlaw in the lifeless Handmaid's T»ta.J" lit a wftaf 7 Sure is confusing for these boy*.
6 OUTTWEEK August 29.1990
think Ihcrt the goy comrrxrt-
ty wont* to hear. Unfortu¬
nately. In the past two years
there hove been three carv
cbdates that have ittte else
to recommend them other
than the* sexual orientation.
In 1965. there were two
openly gay canddates run¬
ning for office. David
Rothenberg. a canddate for
the City Council ond Bill
Thom, a candidate tor CMI
Court judge. At the time
there was only one goy and
lesbian Democratic dub In
Manhattan. GUD (Gay and
Lesbian Independent Demo¬
crats). Al the dfTerent pottl-
col factions In the com¬
munity pulled together to
support Rothenberg ond
Thom, with the exception of
one gay district leoder
named Tom Duane. Duane
chose to support Bl Thom's
opponent. Iro Gtobwerman.
Bll Thom lost 51 percent to
49 percent, by the razor-thin
margin of 1.775 votes. Bill
Thom codd have been the
tint openly gay elected offi¬
cial In New York. Many
blame Tom Duane for stab¬
bing him In the back. Last
year Duane thought that al
taoUd be forgiven and tor-
gotten. When questioned
about I at our endorsement
meeting latf year he hod no
remorse. BM Thom Is one of
our members and we chase
not to endorse Mr. Duane.
In 1986. Debby G*ck end
Dave Taylor were elected
president and vice president
of GUD. Many members felt
disenfranchised and left to
start the Stonewci Democrat¬
ic Club. Snce our inception.
Gllck. Taylor and their dies
have done everything they
posMbfy can to destroy our
organization. Throughout the
yea* we hove attempted to
reach out to toem on Issues of
importance to the gay and
lesbian community. They
have usualy rebuffed us
In 1989.1 became presi¬
dent of Stonewall. I begon
by attempting to reoch out
to GUO and to UD (Lambda
independent Democrats of
Brooklyn). Stonewall spon¬
sored a big forum on the
issue of gay and lesbian vio¬
lence. None of the leaders
of GUD or UD attended.
In May 1989, we held one
of the most successful poeti¬
cal events the community
has ever hod. the Mayoral
Forum. Al four of the Demo-
exalte candtoates tor mayor
attended The event mode
heodtae news on the morn¬
ing newspapers. About 95
percent of the work for this
event, from negotiating with
the candidates to publiciz¬
ing the event to decing with
the medta, etc., was done
by members of the
Stonewal Democratic Club.
Sure, the other two dubs
added their names as co¬
sponsors. but we did the
work. For the good of the
community we decided to
share the accolades.
Also In 1989. Dave Taylor,
then president of GUD.
decided to run tor the aty
Council on the West Side.
There were eight candkJates
In the race and Taylor was
tar from the most qualified
and had very lithe chance
of winning. We chose to sup¬
port a far superior candi¬
date named Ronnie
Eldrldge. Ronnie woo with
more than 40 percent of the
vote. She Is a very good
advocate for the gay ond
lesbian community and we
believe that we mode the
right choice.
Many strolght elected
ofltctOb have been very sup¬
portive of our community,
and it Is important to let
them know how much we
appreciate their support. Bl
Passonnanfe has represent¬
ed the 61 A.D. tor 36 years.
He was the tint legislator In
New York state to sponsor
legislation prohibiting dis¬
crimination against gays
and lesbians. He has been
one of the strongest advo¬
cates In Albany. In March,
before Passonnanfe decid¬
ed whether or not to seek
reelectton. Debby Glck an¬
nounced thot she would
chalenge him. Many of our
friends In Albany were furi¬
ous that our community
would stab one of our
strongest supporters in the
bock. Bl eventually decid¬
ed that It was time to retire,
and wtthln days o group of
qualified candidates
announced their Intentions
to run.
Debby Gllck contacted
us h Mery and asked tor our
support. Our relationship
with her throughout the past
live yean has not been very
good, but we bent over
backwards to give her every
opportunity to win us over.
Our members Just do not
feel that she Is the best qual¬
ified for the Job.
Instead, we choose Lb
Sholienberger. the Village
district leader. Liz has been
a good friend of the gay
and lesbian community, a
leading feminist, a commu¬
nity octMst and an advo¬
cate for tenants, the
homeless and people with
AIDS. For many years Liz
has been a volunteer at
GMHC, as both a legal
advisor and as a buddy to
PWAs. Her commitment to
the Stonewall Democratic
Club has been unwavering.
We think she can win and
wll represent the people In
the 61 A.D. better than her
It b tone that we look reafe-
tteciy at the canddates that
ihe goy and lesbian commu¬
nity chooses to support. We
need to tad qudled goy and
lesbian canaoates who can
get support trom straight vot¬
ers as wel as goy voters. We
also need to convince our
best people. Bee Gtnny Apuz-
zo. Tim Sweeney, David
Wertheimer. Lee Hudbon and
Tom Stoddard, to run for
office. They are the kind of
people we can be proud of
because they have proven
track recotob and deserve our
respect and support because
of what they hove accom¬
plished and not because of
whom they Seep with.
MarfyAlgate
Stonewal Democraffc OUb
Gabriel Rotello responds:
Your assertions prove out
port. By your own ortnrton
you opposed Tom Duane.
Dave Taylor and Deborah
Gtck because of a Harry of
their perceived petty stghfs
ofyourorganbaBon. Notone
of yott reasons for opposing
them has myfttig to do wflh
substantive issues affecting
our commrtfy. You seem to
feel that you can use the
fragile, precious political
power oflesblans and gays
to advance your personal
agendas, ond you don't
seem to mind If you dMde
and destroy viable gay can-
ctdotes in an attempt to pun¬
ish yixr porsond enemies. AS
this In a city that has yet to
elect an open gay to legldo-
rve office
tour last tae.h which you
denigrate candidates' les¬
bian and gay Identities and
state that queer canddotes
don't deserve 'respect and
support’ merely because of
•whom they sleep with.’ Is
homophobic and hypocriti¬
cal. If a gay Identity In pot¬
tles Is not tntrrttcaty worthy
of respect and support, why
do you affix the word
'Stonewar to your group'*
name? You yourselves seek
potlied power by supposed¬
ly representing lesbians and
gays, people who ore
defined and oppressed by
society because of ‘whom
they sleep with’If that's not
Important to you. perhaps
you should chonge your
name.
Mkrotffy VWbilty
I enjoyed your provoco-
tlve issue dealing wfth
‘Smashing the Closet' (no.
46. May 16) on the subject of
outing. Most of Ihe articles
were articulate and gave
much food for thought.
Ayofeml Folayon's orttcle.
August 29.1990 OUTTWEEK 7
•Whose Ufe Is It Anywoy?'
needs to be oddressed.
however. She talked about
the choice of becoming pay
or tablan. There's a choice?
Sorry. I don't think so-not tor
most of us. Ms. Folayan is
already a member of two
other minorities—«he Is Block
and has disabilities These
are visible minorities—and
certainly have led to their
own level of dbcrlmlnatton.
This can help explain her
resistance to bracking down
another protective barri¬
er-equaling coming out to
being the target tor further
dbcrtrrthatlon.
She was also against the
Idea of 'oulng people such
as Mdcolm Forbes'—caflng
articles on him being gay
for the reader who needs a
rhot of sleaze In their Ife' So
being gay Is sleazy? Ms.
Folayan s dbabbttes seem to
extend to a crippled sense
Ms. Fotoyan ddn't choose
to be Stock—or dbobled—so
maybe It's Itme tor d of us to
own up and become menv
beo of a vtstole mlnortfy and
estabfch our rtghtfd ploce h
society.
MIcho&Kohl
Los Angeles
Ayoteml Mayan responds:
My outspoken opposition to
the practice of outing Is not
equivalent to an unwilling¬
ness to be a proud and out
lesbian. My writing as a reg-
Jar columnist for both Out-
Week and the Vtanguard (a
local Los Angeles gay and
lesbian newspaper) and my
frequent contributions to
Gay Commuilfy News corv
troJct you assumption that
I am only uncomfortable
with aspects of my setf-defL
nltlon that are less obvious
than my race and dbabttty
(My OsabBty. konlcaty. was
after I became a vocal db-
ObMty rights octMst). My db-
taste for outing stems from
the lack of self-determlno-
ffon Inherent In forcing
someone out of the doset.
not from any LTwIUngness to
fling wide my own closet
door (which I did tn 1965).
The ’ sleaze' refers to the
sensational tabloid-type
expo#) joumatsm that Is the
conduit for outing, not the
gay and lesbian Ives which
are revealed There are far
more Instances of ’outing'In
the tabloid press than the
gay and lesbian meda out¬
lets. I sM respect the choice
tome Individuals make to
live a closeted life, even
though H Is not one I person-
afy advocate.
Amazing Grace
Regarding a letter In you
August 15 Issue (no. 59) from
a gentleman who was upset
Memorial Fund-Raber held at
the Paaodun In New Mode on
Sunday. July 22.
My name Is Bob Cavtano.
and 1 produced this event
wtlh ACT UP. I cbo represent¬
ed Groce Jones for over ten
yean as her agent.
The gentleman seemed
to be unhappy that Grace
hit the stage at 1:13 am. For
Grace, that's early He c»d
not mention In hfc letter that
Groce performed fa aknosf
two hours (She hod agreed
to perform only two songs.)
Grace poured out her heart
on stage. She performed 13
songs that night. She
received no fee for this
benefit. The gentleman aba
Inferred In his letter that It
was too crowded, and he
could not see the Brow. Give
me a break—I thought the
Idea of robing money, robing
consciousness, bringing a
community together, remem-
mostfy hidden until long wtth the ACT UP-KeHh Haring berlng our Wend Ketth was
w.Wk
H \ V
OUTTWEEK August 29.1990
Crotch BoS
Art Show
the objective The atten¬
dance that night was 4,500
people. It was beautiful: gay
people, straight people.
PWAs. ACT UP. Grace. Larry
Levan, boys in their
underwear....His letter also
indicated that ACT UP
should be more selective
about the benefits they get
involved with. Does the
gentleman have any
suggestions? Did he think
that $10 was too much to
pay for ACT UP. the Keith
Haring Foundation. Groce
Jones and a terrific party?
He dta not have to buy the
beer. The profits totaled over
$35,000. (The PafiocAxn and
its staff were donated.)
In closing. I'm sure that
Keith Is happy.
BabCovtano
Vice President
lyuuW Entertainment
Group
Manhattan
I was lerrWy dWressed to
read the letter from Douglas
Huton.
Groce Jones gave one of
her best performances In
honor of her Mend Keith Har¬
ing. because It came from
the heart.
Groce was asked to do
three songs, but Insteod she
performed for almost two
hours. She graciously signed
autographs, talked to her
fare and partied mil 6 am.
She regained her title.
•Queen of the Queens'
No one forced Mr. Huston
to buy beers at $5.50 eoch.
The tickets cost a mere $10.
ACT UP received a check for
over $30,000. and Groce dta
not get pcfid for her perfor¬
mance. I think It an Insert that
the only mention of Groce
and that special evening
sfxxJd come from a dfrgrun-
tled Individual who only
stayed a whle when tho rest
of us were brought to tears
by Groce's sincerity.
MelCheren
Founder
24 hkxji for Ute
Manhattan
I Iced the stories by & Bd
(Junch In the board room via
elevator) and C. Crotch
(pantyhose tor IssblansXno. 57.
Aug. 1). they were a relef cfler
efi the articles about ponies
end crime. CoUd you sertdbe
some novel? Maybe an old
one that pubtohers wouldn't
charge you tor fre rtchb.
SusanKrabbe
_ Port Jefferson. NY
Who TOW?
I read Coundlmember
Carol Greltzer's letter stat¬
ing that she morched In
the Lesbian and Gay Pride
March. I've known the
councfiwoman for 20 years
and have only two ques¬
tions: Where did she find
out about the march? Who
told her?
AtenQoskoff
Manhattan
This letter Is to dert every
educated and sendbie per¬
son about the Incredible
tactics that Pat Robertson Is
using to kill the National
Endowment tor the Arts. Dur¬
ing daytime hours he has
been showing the Map¬
plethorpe photographs that
are coreldered obscene to
his audience to convince
his followers to call their
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congressmen (and -women) Now l ask you. who do remolnlng tenure at the This Is an organization
and vote ogolnst the NEA. you want guarcftng our joc^ agency. Why was Dunne that the goy community
(He Is not showing the photos ety from moral corruption permitted to stay on for nine shcxid be able to be proud
that aren't objectionable.) and spiritual decoy: fundo- months at a time when the of. but sadly, the GMHC
The point I want to bring mentatets and pottldane or staff needed responsive board has traveled far away
to everyone's attention (hearts? leadership the most? from its initial integrity, brav-
about the Christian fundo- Gene Oder Mr. [Xme was thought to ery and compassion. The
mentallsts is that In doing San Antonio. Texas be brilliant In his dealings management of this organl-
ihls. they present themselves extemd to the agency, and ration has become an unfor-
as the only protectors of our AM Along the Walchiower it was never clear what Mr. tunate playground, rtddted
society's morals. These Thank you for covering Draft's professional back- with Inflated egos and
actions are te«ng us that the the resignation of Execultve ground would bring to unprofessional Inbreeding,
people who are interested m Director Jeffrey Draft from match the needs of GMHC. where personality games
the arts are not moral GMHC. With this sudden res- With both of these gentle- come first, and cDent needs
enough people, are not Ignatlon. GMHC Is ogaln men deposed, it Is time for come last. Staff members,
capable of making moral without leadership untl the the board to rethink their cri- volunteers and clients are
judgments and must be board of dkectoa choose o terla for the appropriate being treated with dlsre-
chcperoned by the relgfous replacement. For the execu- canddate. spect when o boord does
BCh». who hove better sp«- ttve director of the world s GMHC has been able to not take a stand to protect
tud vakjes. m order to keep largest AIDS organization to provide o unique and the staff's best Interests by
the rest of us from becoming give less thon one week's diverse range of services, making sure an executive
morcky bankrupt notice is noteworthy of scrutt- Inducing an cnay of proven- director does not hang
Institutions who do not ny. What Is going on at tlve education, legal ser- around for nine months or
have to pay taxes on their GMHC? The previous execu- vices, counseling, etc. Why? exit m three days
Investments are saying that the <*ector. Rfchard Dunne. Decause the majority of staff Larry Kramer's depiction
they don't want anymore resigned gtvtng an unheard- and volunteers remember of the boord connot be
taxpayer's money to fund of nine months' notice. This that they are there to serve improved: ’Awful follings.
the NEA. But we are the tar- left him on administrative the Interests of the clients. Ineptitudes and tragic fraB-
payers. lame duck for most of his not themselves. ties at a time when there Is
10 OJTTWEEK August 29.1990
rvo time to be weak and
cowardy.'
I Implore the gay and les¬
bian community and the
PWA community to take a
closer look at the board of
this organization as the new
executive dkector. as wel as
other key management posi¬
tions such as the director of
dent services. Is being Wed.
Everyone who donates to.
votonteers for and receives
services from GMHC has the
right and the responsMty to
demand that the board tcke
a stand that GMHC be grid¬
ed by the mission of educat¬
ing the community, advo¬
cating for the community
and providing professional
and compassionate care to
people with AIDS who
request services
The search should be
aimed at securing profesrion-
ab who hove the experience
and capability to provide
desperately needed leader¬
ship to a hungry and hard¬
working staff, it should not be
a personality or a beauty
contest. There vrfi be no sec¬
ond chance If the board of
the largest gay organization
continues to hobble along
without the backbone to Ike
someone when they have to
and hire an appropriate can¬
didate expediently, if the
gay community does not
watch out for this organiza¬
tion, who w«?
Marne Withheld
Rad Snap!
Fighting homophobia
and AIDS phobia In the
music business Is a Job wel
done by OufWeek ond Its
music editor. Victoria Starr,
and Its vicious gossip
maven. Michelangelo S»g-
norlle. I think It Is very
Important to celebrate
each ond every victory
that ony of us achieve In
fighting homophobia. In
educating the public and
bringing obout a change.
An extraordinary step for¬
ward was mode by the Zap
Snapl people In bringing
about a loud and swift
response to the assault Inci¬
dent at Buddies In Boston
Involving the owner, a
security person and a
member of Snapl
Leod singer Turbo Harris'
written, pubSc apology Is a
victory In the fight ogoinst
homophobia. Axl Rose.
Audo Two. Big Daddy Kane.
Pubic Enemy. Dke SrcKgh)ts
and Peter Hook have never
Issued any apology for thek
homophobic songs. In fact,
they each have defended
ihe* songs under freedom of
expression. Only Ice-T has
pubScty stated that he has
removed Ns AlDS-phoblc
remarks from his live show
and apologized for his Igno¬
rance. (A carefii fetering to
Snapl s record proves It Is not
homophobic.)
Tubo Harris is In my view
a powertd example of how
homophobia works. His fear
of homosexuals propelled
film to be physlcaly aggres¬
sive m the Buckles environ¬
ment. This Is a classic
exomple of homosexual
panic. Turbo Harris has
admitted that his behavior b
not Justifiable. He has acfrrtt-
ted that It was an Irrational
response to his own anxiety
at being In the company of
homosexuals.
Harris' apology provides
a beginning for a dkkogue
with the heterosexual
African-American commu¬
nity on how homophobia
hurts lesbian and gay
African-Americans as well
as norvpeople-of-cotoc les¬
bian and gay people and
on how homophobia hurts
self-ldentlfled straight
African-American artists
such as Turbo Harris.
As to the owner of Bud-
des refusing to accept the
apology, wel. perhaps he Is
looking for money rather
than a written apology and
dalogue
Remember, victims of gay
ond lesbion bashing ore
physlcaly maimed and mur¬
dered In growing rxmbers.
Fortunately, only pride
wasmMedatBuddes
I am Interested In finding
ways of lowering the 'saving
face* game being played
dnd Increasing the cross¬
community. cross-cultural
datogue that w« effectively
make the world safer for les¬
bians and gays of dl colors.
Snapl s apology b a vic¬
tory.
Let's accept It and move
forward.
JtnFouattt
Manhattan
PS A Ittleknown tact b that
the female singer In Snapl.
Penny Ford, has hod a tamfy
member de of AIDS. Her dvo
cousin. Sharon Redd, has
cfways been pubic* support¬
ive of the lesbian and gay
oomrmrify.
MBer Msdrecion
l agree with ACT UP/MI-
wxkee concerning the Mter
Boer boycott. Anyone who
beieves fiat Mter execulk«
have any red soy H PNta Mor¬
ris' poWcaKampdgn contri¬
butions Is being very naive,
and the gutt-by-association
aguments h tarar of Ihe boy¬
cott are specious.
Untl someone can prove
that Miller has a direct con¬
nection to Helm's reelecfton
campaign, this boycott will
look Ice mbdrected adMsm
Okj rage at Helms and Ns Be
deserve better targets than
this, and we hove them
already. Let's keep the heat
on where If belongs.
Hank Baker
Manhattan
Voucher System
fund audences. not artists.
The oritfnd mission of Ihe
National Endowment for the
Arts was to alkoct audenoes
to the arts much Hre John F.
Kennedy's Physical Fitness
Commbdon was geared to
lure Americans to exercise.
Now they are oddetod to »-
ness activities. The endowment
concentrated on developing
audiences by developing
artists. It Is time to let audi¬
ences support cjltsts. Hovresrer.
It Is not rime for the NEA to
cease Its business with the
hope lhat taxpayers wfl con¬
sume art Be they do basebol.
The NEA shodd krd aud¬
ences trough audence bro¬
kers. The NEA panels wodd
convert Into a brokerage
boad that wodd review and
approve voucher requests
from jpectfc audence repre¬
sentatives such as arts groups,
associations and oudence-
development administrators
who work closely with commu-
r.rre
These appScatlors wodd
be oonddered by audence-
revfew panels, and grants
wodd be awarded to Identi¬
fied audences who wodd
be provided wtth vouchers
that are assignable and
redeemable by artists to pre¬
pare and present thek work
to the recipients.
The NEA panels wodd not
be replaced, but thek obigo-
tton ond duty would be to
spread Ihe vouchers amongst
a diverse segment or aud¬
ences troughout the ooertty
vho dready partlctade h arts
programming. Arittfs con then
apply to these voucher Arid-
ed groups for support.
The NEA should continue
promoting the arts through
promoting audence partld-
pdton.
ChartetSeber
9wvoport. La
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August 29.1990 OUTTWEEK 11
News
Right Wing Counters
Miller Boycott With
Legal Action
by Al Weiwl
NEW YORK—In the latest In a
string of attempts by a right-wing
group to use the Federal Election
Commission to harass progressives,
the Conservative Campaign Fund has
filed a complaint with the FBC against
ACT UP/DC, ACT UP/San Francisco,
the Dallas Gay Alliance and others
who have spearheaded a boycott of
Philip Morris products Miller beer and
Marlboro cigarettes, to protest the
company's support of Jesse Helms.
The complaint alleges that these
groups violated the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971. which regulates
the amount of money a group or Indi¬
vidual can spend to influence a federal
election without reporting to the gov¬
ernment or registering as a political
committee
Bill Rubenstein, director of the
ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project,
said that ‘the complaint is very vague.'
He charged that its intent b to ‘scare
these people.’ The Conservative Cam¬
paign Fund, he contended, ‘is using
the FEC to try to chill free speech and
mute opposition to Jesse Heims.’
The president of the Conservative
Campaign Fund, Peter Flaherty, sakl that
he filed the complaint because ‘I just
want to see both sides play by the same
rules.' In a press release, he stated:
This anti-Helms effort appears to be
totally illegal. The campaign finance
laws exist to keep elections honest and
fair. These homosexual extremists
should obey the law like everyone else.’
Federal election law bans cor¬
porations from donating money to a
federal campaign, although It can
funnel money through a political
action committee. The law stipu¬
lates that any group that spends
more than $1,000 to 'expressly
advocate' a candidate must register
as a political committee. An individ¬
ual who spends more than
$200 to advocate a candidate
must report these expenditures
to the FEC. Just what consti¬
tutes 'expressly advocating' a
candidate is decided by a six-
member board made up of
three Democrats and three
Republicans. Scott Moxley, an
FEC spokesperson, said that he
was ‘not aware of the specific
question of a boycott coming
before the committee' prior to
this time.
The complaint, written by
Flaherty, maintains that ‘while
economic boycotts may be con¬
sidered lawful as a means of
political protest.. , the true pur¬
pose and intent of defendants
[sic] activities extend beyond acts
of protest to the defeat of Sena¬
tor Jesse Helms for reelection.
Such activities are subject to reg¬
ulation' by the FEC
In addition to thb complaint,
the Conservative Campaign Fund
recently lodged a similar com¬
plaint against Cure AIDS Now.
12 OUmVEEK August 29.1990
the Oral Majority and its director, Bob
Kunst, for their efforts to boycott the
products of companies that support
Jesse Helms. And this week, the FEC
confirmed, R. Jack Hawke, Jr., state
Republican chair of North Carolina,
filed an FEC complaint against the
National Abortion Rights Action
League for its attacks on Jesse Helms*
anti-abortion record.
But filing complaints with the
FEC against progressive groups is not
a new tactic for conservatives, in
1984, the National Conservative Polit¬
ical Action Committee accused the
National Organization for Women of
violating federal election law when it
criticized such candidates as Ronald
Reagan and Jesse Helms in its fund-
raising literature. A U.S. district court
ruled in NOW’S favor in May 1989.
but the FEC has appealed, and a
decision is still pending. According to
Lena Zezulin, a lawyer who defended
NOW against these allegations,
NCPACs complaint was a ‘pre-elec¬
tion tactic.*
Michael Petrelis of ACT
UP/DC, who, along with Nancy
Solomon of ACT UP/San Francisco,
was one of two individuals named
in the complaint, commented, *1
think this is another example of
how Helms and his supporters are
trying to silence gays and les¬
bians.' Saying that he thought he
was named because of his Involve¬
ment in sit-ins at Jesse Helms’
offices, Petrelis concluded, *1 think
this is a political vendetta *
In the opinion of William Way-
bourne, vice president of the Dallas
Gay Alliance, the complaint is a
■form of legal harassment,* but he
added, *We‘re moving right along
with the boycott at the same time.*
He said he believes that ‘the filing
of the complaint has made some
people come off the fence* and join
the boycott.
Meanwhile, a recent poll of 813
North Carolina voters conducted by
Mason-Dixon Opinion Research
shows the Senate battle between
Harvey Gantt and Jesse Helms to be
a statistical dead heat. Gann has a
slight lead over Helms, 46 percent to
44 percent, but 10 percent of the
voters are still undecided, with the
poll’s margin of error 3 5 percent. ▼
Boycott Spreads to Straight Clubs
NEW YORK—Despite a lack of
unity within the gay and lesbian coro-
munity. the Miller boycott is still going
strong, and even gaining support from
mainstream establishments in other
ports of the city.
In addition to the Duplex, a
piano bar in the West Village, Eighty
Eight’s, and a jazz dub on the Upper
West Side. The West End Gate Cafe,
have both joined the boycott.
*1 don’t know that it’s even a
straight or gay issue—Jesse Heims is a
moron," said Karen Miller, a manager
at Eighty Eight’s. *1 think that straight
people care about things as much as
gay people do sometimes.'
Stephen Overmyer, manager of the
Wat End Gate Cafe, admfe that he hasn’t
yet replaced the Marlboro pocks in the
dub’s qgatene machine, adding. ‘Manage¬
ment here supports the boycott, but we
hovent explained to our cusomers why.*
And to Marty Weinstein, general
manager of Woody's, a West Village
restaurant, the decision not to sell
Miller is not political. *1 don’t know
that I’m part of any official boycott. ..I
don’t fed that It’s political. In keeping
with the spirit of the neighborhood,
I’m choosing not to sell the beer.*
Still there arc those who blatantly
refuse to stop selling Miller. Stressing
that his bar sells a lot of Miller and
Miller Lite, Nathanid Bailey, manager of
Boots and Saddle, a gay bar on Christo¬
pher Street, said, ‘I believe politics
shouldn't affect our business If [the cus¬
tomers! boycott it. then well boycott it'
A similar train of thought chugs
along at the Upper East Side's Coun¬
try, where an unidentified source dis¬
closed, "My boss doesn’t believe in
mixing business with politics.’
An employee of the G.H. Club,
who also asked not to be identified,
said that his East Side bar was serving
Miller because *we got it in stock.* He
didn't know what management
planned to do once the Inventory runs
down.
Located In the East 40’s, Johnny’s
Pub, whose owner recently passed
away, has been plagued by financial
difficulties. ‘We have a lot of Miller
beer downstairs—maybe some restau¬
rants can afford to dump it, but we
cant," said Esther, a bartender there.
Noting that the chef now has power
of attorney, Esther added, 'As for the
future, he hasn’t decided.'
John Avella, owner of South
Dakota, a gay bar on Third Avenue, is
boycotting Miller and selling Bud Light
instead. But he said that the switch
hasn't been easy, particularly since the
Miller distributor gave him a difficult
time in taking the beer bock. Because
the distributor arrived two days later
than promised to pick up the unwant¬
ed stock, the bar became low on stor¬
age space, and Avella was forced to
dutter his kitchen with cases of Miller.
And although he strongly sup¬
ports the boycott of Miller beer, Avella
noted that a Miller chandelier still
hangs in South Dakota, and a Lite
Beer sign still adorns the front win¬
dow. *1 don't want to start taking dec¬
orations down now—it's not neces¬
sary." be added.
Some gay bars, like Bogart’s on
East 59th Street, don’t serve Miller
anyway, but still post a notice Inform¬
ing their customers of Miller's affilia¬
tion with Helms. Uncle Charlie's on
Greenwich Avenue has posted a sign
about the boycott at its entrance. Man¬
agement at Bogart’s has pulled all
Marlboro packs out of their cigarette
machines.
■Well suffer financially, but we’re
trying to do the right thing,* says a bar¬
tender at Julius, another gay bar partici¬
pating in the boycott. *Most of the sup¬
port that gays get Is from the
bars—that’s the way It's always
been....I’m smoking Camel lights* he
added
Eric, a manager at the Duplex,
doesn't think that support should be
restricted to the gay community; ‘Cer¬
tainly what's going on with the NEA is
not good. I think that everybody
should [boycott].*
For the latest information on the
boycott. ACT UP has provided a toll
free number; 1 (800) 666-3308, A.
voice-mall system provides message
centers for over a dozen local ACT UP
chapters nationwide.
—-Janls Astor
August 29,1990 OUTTWEEK 13
News
Of Gay Candidates and Gay
Political Clubs
It's my party and I’ll back whom I want to
by Nina Reyn
NEW YORK—Last year, two
openly gay candidates In different dis¬
tricts ran for seats on the New York
City Council. Neither prevailed in
November. Both were opposed by a
local gay political dub.
nongay opponents, despite the fact
that she has received support from
some of the most prominent lesbian
and gay political figures in die cky and
has garnered endorsements from tradi¬
tional strongholds of progressive politi¬
cal influence.
-WE ARE WHOLE HUMAN BEINGS'
Deborah Click
This year, openly lesbian New
York State Assembly candidate Debo¬
rah Glide watched the same gay politi¬
cal organization endorse one of her
Ironically, the
vast majority of gay
and lesbian electoral
savants say that the
gay dub’s refusal to
embrace any of the
openly lesbian or
gay candidates who
have bucked for
office recently has
not had a significant
effect on the results
of those races.
Fortunately or
unfortunately, the
phenomenon of gay
political dubs failing
to support openly les¬
bian and gay candi¬
dates is by no means
confined to Gotham
City. In fact, even the
revered Harvey Milk
met stiff opposition
from the political-
establishment gay
men and lesbians
who dominated the
electoral scene in Son
Francisco in the
1970s. Boston's open¬
ly gay city councilor,
David Scondras,
watched a group of
gay and lesbian politi¬
cos with ties to City Hall form an doc¬
toral organization tailored to oppose
his candidacy when he first ran for a
seat on the City Council in 1983 Mike
PtoteTLUtVflUttWi
Gelpi, a congressional hopeful in
Ohio, charges the Human Rights Cam¬
paign Fund with ddiberatcly refusing
him support. And in 1988, the same
News Analysis
gay electoral organization that had
formed in opposition to Scondras
voted overwhelmingly against support¬
ing the candidacy of an open lesbian
running for the state Senate.
Begging the Question
Though the language of derision
has changed somewhat since Milk was
opposed by San Francisco’s Alice B.
Toklas Memorial Democratic dub. the
conflict between lesbian and gay elec¬
toral power-brokers and gay men and
lesbians who think that no amount of
influence surmounts the importance of
having a place at the table has
remained essentially the same. In New
York, resistance to openly gay and les¬
bian candidates has come from a
group with strong ties to former Mayor
Edward Koch. In Harvey Milk's San
Francisco, opposition came from an
organization that was closely affiliated
with northern California's liberal politi¬
cal machine. On the national level,
political action committees have a bias
toward support for congressional
incumbents.
In other words, the phenomenon
rests on a classic insider-vs.-outsider
political delineation, and an openly
gay or lesbian candidate is virtually by
definition a political outsider.
•Every gay candidate who has
been successful will say that you have
to reach out beyond the community,*
remarked New York state Assembly
aspirant Deborah Click "We've proven
ourselves to be more than a single-
14 oitttweek Auoust 291990
issue community because we are
whole human beings.*
That fact, some political observers
think, frames the central dilemma for
both gay political clubs and openly
gay politicians. The community needs
advocates with vote-casting power
who can work full-time on the issues
that affect the lesbian and gay commu¬
nity as a whole. But no one is defined
solely by his or her sexual orientation.
Just because a candidate is proudly
gay or lesbian does not mean that he
or she will consistently be an effective
representative of the community, but
neither does that mean that an openly
gay candidate does not deserve the
community’s support.
The equation is complicated by
the fact that openly gay candidates, for
sheer matters of expediency, are more
likely to run in districts heavily popu¬
lated with lesbians and gay men, and
in those districts, nongay incumbents
are typically responsive to gay issues
precisely because they need gay and
lesbian votes to ensure that they will
be returned to their elected positions.
For example, in Boston right now,
an openly gay Republican, Mike Duffy,
has issued a challenge to a heavily gay
district's unswervingly progressive
Democratic state representative. Byron
Rushing. The race has provided that
city’s activist community with an ongo¬
ing examination of the myriad obsta¬
cles littering our community's rise to
political power.
*It was hard for me, because 1
think we should run,* acknowledged
Boston activist Jim Brinning, who is
supporting Rushing. *lt’s important for
people who have been so disenfran¬
chised—it’s important for us to take
part in the process.'
Duffy’s supporters have counted
on the fundamental appeal of that sen¬
timent to rally support for their candi¬
date. casting their favorite as a dark
horse whose election could open new
doors in the corridors of the State
House. Duffy would be the first openly
gay man with a seat on Beacon Hill,
and his anomalous Republican affilia¬
tion could offer the community an
opportunity to make inroads on the
party of Jesse Helms, his supporters say.
In the Rushing-Duffy race, the
openly gay challenger has posed a
compelling question to the city's lesbian
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and gay electoral activists: Do they
want to take the next logical step in
seizing political power, or do they pre¬
fer to wait for the perfect gay candi¬
date to evolve before they will be will¬
ing to ask for a scat at the table?
The Right Stuff
The other major issue that has
plagued openly lesbian and gay candi¬
dates who run far office without the bless¬
ing of gay electoral action clubs is the
question of viability. Since so few open
lesbians and gay men have been catapult¬
ed into the seats of power by voters, the
issue is constantly open to debate.
Mike Gdpi, an openly gay Demo¬
crat in Columbus, Ohio, has won his
party's nomination for a congressional
seat that is currently hdd by a conser¬
vative Republican, John Kaskh. How¬
ever, while Gelpi would seem to be a
natural candidate for support from
national-arena gay electoral organiza¬
tions, that assistance has not been
forthcoming. Ironically, in the same
race two years ago, the Campaign
Pund gave Gelpi $5,000.
‘As of this time, we have decided
to forego participation in that particular
race because we are concerned about
the viability of his campaign,*
explained Gregory King, a spokesper¬
son for the Human Rights Campaign
Pund. "We cant give financial contri¬
butions to campaigns that don't appear
to be viable.*
According to King, the organiza¬
tion must balance its will to assist gay
and lesbian candidates with the need
to please Campaign Fund contributors.
In other words, the group cannot
afford to disappoint major donors by
throwing money at potentially losing
candidates, even if those candidates
are gay or lesbian.
The impulse to go with the likely
winner, which in the case of the Cam¬
paign Fund means that the organiza¬
tion has a practice of supporting
incumbents, reveals the seemingly
inherent cautious nature of hardball
electoral activism. For gay and lesbian
candidates, that formula can be disas¬
trous: Part of the game of politics is
lining up presumptive supporters and
making a bid for wider support by
trading on the value of those initial
investors’ faith. If a politically ambitious
lesbian or gay man cannot win the
endorsement of other gay and lesbian
agents, then he or she may be automat¬
ically branded a political dilettante.
*The Campaign Pund tends to run
with conventional Washington think¬
ing,* Gelpi noted, "and their attitude is
"WHEN YOU HAVE A GOOD PLAN, THEN
TALK TO US." Photo OufHtP#
Mike Gelpi
that when you have a good pol and a
plan, then come and talk with us, and
well sec what we can do.*
On that level, viability becomes
purely a matter of perception. In
Gelpi’s case in particular, considering
that the Ohio professional was former¬
ly the national fund-raising chair for
the Campaign Pund, the enthusiastic
support of his erstwhile colleagues
could provide him with the crucial
credibility that is the foundation on
which viability is erected.
-Go With GUck*
Alternatively, Deborah Glick’s
campaign for the 6lst Assembly scat in
New York may well prove successful
despite the Stonewall Democratic
Club’s endorsement of one of her
opponents.
dick, formerly the deputy director
for general services in the Deportment
of Housing Preservation and Develop¬
ment, has garnered an impressive and
diverse array of endorsements, includ¬
ing Gay and Lesbian Independent
Democrats, the city’s largest gay dub;
gay politicos Virginia Apuzzo, Larry
Kramer and Vito Russo; openly gay
Rochester City Councilor Tim Mains;
former New York City Council candi¬
date Tom Duane; the National Organi¬
zation for Vfamen; Brooklyn Congress¬
man Major Owens; Hazel Dukes, presi¬
dent of the local NAACP; and District
65, a 40,000-member union represent¬
ing clerical and other private sector
employees.
Listing among her concerns health
care, the environment, civil rights,
abortion rights, bias-related violence
and domestic partnerships. Glide says:
*1 think that my candidacy represents a
strong, activist-based candidacy that
people respond to....I’m in touch with
[both] the majority of the leadership
and the grass-roots activists in the
community.*
Running in a large field of candi¬
dates for a small state-level office,
Glide, like any candidate in her posi¬
tion, must battle against voter apathy
and for visibility. The vacated assembly
seat from the 6lst District currently
filled by retiring 35-year veteran liberal
Democrat William Passanantc has
attracted a small swarm of candidates:
Kathryn Freed, put forward by the
Downtown independent Democrats;
Anthony Hoffman, a Democratic Party
district leader backed by the Village
Independent Democrats; Liz Shollcn-
berger, another Greenwich Village
Democratic district leader backed by
both the Village Reform Democrats,
the political and the gay Stonewall
Democratic Club; and Robert Rygor,
another openly gay candidate backed
by the little-known Frontier Democrat¬
ic dub. At last count. Click had man¬
aged to amass the largest political war
chest of the field.
The heavily gay 61st District
indudes the West Village, Greenwich Vil¬
lage, SoHo, NoHo, TriBeCa, Little Italy,
and parts of the East Village. Chinatown
16 OUTTWEEK August 29.1990
and Battery Park City.
Many perceive the slate Legisla¬
ture as little more than a paper-push¬
ing legislative bureaucracy that politi¬
cians use as a stepping-stone to state¬
wide office. But its importance to the
lesbian and gay community, and the
need for an elected gay presence in
Albany, was highlighted again last
spring, when a gay-inclusive anti-bias
bill backed by Gov Mario Cuomo was
held hostage and ultimately defeated
by state Republicans.
The schisms among politically
organized lesbians and gay men arc
merely emblematic of gulfs of differ¬
ence that exist within our community.
For instance, our political action organi¬
zations have not yet succeeded in fully
enfranchising the issues of women and
people of color, and the membership
and leadership of many of our electoral
action groups are persistently homoge¬
neous. We have an ongoing fight
between people who remain comfort¬
ably in the dooet, and people who live
in complete openness For some, AIDS
and health-care issues are unquestion¬
ably at the top of the lesbian and gay
agenda, while to others, AIDS is not a
gay and lesbian issue.
In this moment in history, with
dozens of openly gay elected officials
throughout the country, there can be
no doubt that we have ascended to
some level of political power. It's not
as vast as the fundamentalists would
have the populace think, but neither is
it inconsiderable
And here in New York, with the
upcoming redrawing of the city’s elec¬
toral districts, the shameful era in
which an openly lesbian or gay candi¬
date has never been brought to elected
office may be drawing to a dose. ▼
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Nows
New Cable Rules
Disastrous for Gay TV
by Gabrial Rotallo
protected free speech by reference to you definitely should have some anxi-
NEW YORK—In an effort to protecting minors. Parents should be cty," he told Out Week.
comply with new city regulations, responsive for protecting their children.’ ' The new rules are part of a broad
Manhattan Cable Television announced The definition of restricted adver- relicensing agreement negotiated
that It will restrict sexual advertising on tising is contained in the city's new between the city and the cable compa-
its public access outlets beginning Aug. franchise agreement with the cable ny over the last few months. The spe-
27. The move is expected to severely company. It states that beginning Aug. cific clause relating to sex advertise-
The new rules are part of a broad
relicensing agreement negotiated
curtail lesbian and gay prog ramming
which is heavily dependent on sex-
related ads for survival.
company. It states that beginning Aug. cific clause relating to sex advertiae-
27, Manhattan Cable must ‘exclude ments was included at the insistence of
from distribution over the system any Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman, a
indecent advertisement, or the adver- longtime community ally, who was
Ironically, some of the gay com- tisement of any indecent product or reportedly incensed when she saw an
munity's most steadfast supporters in service, that appeals to the prurient incest-related sex ad on a cable pro-
dty government seem to have unknow- interest and is unsuitable for viewing gram. But the rules affecting gay pro-
ingly provided the impetus ot ^gamming go far beyond
the new regulations. [ ™ incest or cMd-abu*-relat-
In a letter dated Aug 14. ed
MCTV informed independent J now banned corn-
producers that-programming A pj y
x M Holtzman spokesperson
Andrea said that
only from., midnight to 4 30 M the rules negative effect on
am' The apparent gay and lesbian program-
rule to ming was unintentional
minors from viewing sexual- ^‘The comptroller is a
ly suggestive ads I Srong supporter of gay pro-
Gay programmers, how- gramming and this clause
ever, were quick to point out teas m no' way intended to
that parents currently have the affect that,’ Berastein said.
•„*, ^ comptroUer-s view
channel they find offensive Off THE AIR? Photo tL Un/OrfMts* that sexually explicit ads are
Lesqian and gay pro- Andy Humm quints Virginia Apiuzo for GCN at 1989 s Community harmful to children, and she
gramming. such as the three Ctntgr Party. holds to her belief that such
weekly programs produced programming should be on
by the Gay Cable Network, are all by minors, except during the hours of at restricted hours,
aired earlier than midnight. Such pro- midnight to 4:30 am." She added, *
gramming is al m ost totally financed by
light to 4:30 am." She added, The onus shouldn't
The sweeping language apparently be on the cable subscribers to block
■od would presumably includes ads that are in themselves programming. Most parents, especially
be either denied access or restricted to unobjectionable, but that advertise non-English speakers, aren't even
time slots after 12 am. Public-access products which appeal to the *prurient aware of the option to block.'
gay programs, which are supported by interest,’ like phone sex, porn films Some gay leaders also pointed to
viewer donations and containing no and video, sex toys, escort services and the role of City Council President Ruth
advertisements, such as ‘Out in the other sex-related products and services. Messinger, whose office was deeply
wT, will not be affected. Richard Aurelio, the president of involved in the negotiations leading to
Lesbian and gay groups were out- Time/Wamer NYC Cable Group, which the new franchise comma. However,
raged at the new roles. The Gay and operates MCTV, declined to identify Messinger spokesperson Robert
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, a guidelines that would be used in cen- Bravo-Webber said that Messinger
media watchdog group, issued a state- soring ads. ‘If you're a programmer ’categorically denies playing any role
mem that said, in part: This b part of who has an ad that you feel in your in this clause being included in the
a partem of attack on constitutionally heart violates the city requirements, franchise agreement-
18 OUTTWEEK August 29.1990
He Mid: During the negotiations
we were lobbied to save gay program¬
ming, and we fought for that. We were
never lobbied to save advertisers, and
we never made the connection
between advertising and programs '
Legal analysts were quick to
point out that the rules could be chal¬
lenged on constitutional grounds.
Concerning the use of the term ‘inde¬
cent* to define restricted ads, Art
Eisenberg of the ACLU said, ‘The
indecency standard has already been
found to be unconstitutionally vague
to other cases.*
The most recent case to which the
indecency standard was rejected was
last week's phone-sex ruling in the
Southern District of New York. In that
case a Jesse Helms-sponsored law that
would have required customers to pie-
subscribe to phone-sex services was
struck down, partly on the grounds
that the labeling of phone sex as
‘indecent* was ‘unconstitutionally
vague* (see Out Takes).
Observers of that case also point¬
ed out another similarity with the cur¬
rent MCTV regulation. In both cases, a
ban on advertisers would have the
practical effect of damaging or destroy¬
ing the advertising medium, namely
the lesbian and gay press.
In a related development, MCTV
also announced that all programming
on ‘public-leased* Channel 23/J will
be removed from the channel as of
Oct 1 to make room for C-SPAN pro¬
gramming. All producers who cur¬
rently have shows on Channel 23/J
and carry advertising must reapply
for programming time on Channels
26 or 35.*
Gay producers on 23/J have
expressed fears that such a move
will allow MCTV executives to elim¬
inate programming they find dis¬
tasteful and to increase the price for
their shows.
‘Manhattan Cable will now have
the right to choose what goes on and
what doesn't,* said Lou Maletta, pro¬
ducer of the Gay Cable Network,
adding, "Every time they change the
rules, they up the price "
MCTV's Aurello discounted such
fears. ’All we're doing is changing the
channel." he said. *lf producers have
a track record, they have no reason
for anxiety.* ▼
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NY court
blocks
attacks on
phone sex
NEW YORK—A federal court last
week blocked implementation of a new
law that would have restricted phone
callers’ access to "dial-a-pom" numbers,
marking a stunning victory for advo¬
cates of free speech and ensuring the
continued viability of phone sex In the
lesbian and gay community.
In the ruling, the court found that
the phone-sex law, enacted last fall as
an amendment to the 1934 Federal
Communications Act, will probably be
ruled unconstitutional on the grounds
that it violates First Amendment rights
m
KENDALL MOmiSON PtotoBranltorata
snd does not advance the govern¬
ment's compelling interest through the
least restrictive means, a standard legal
test in such cases.
The decision came just two days
before the Federal Communications
Commission’s regulations in compli¬
ance with the law were scheduled for
implementation. The federal govern¬
ment had stated that it would hold off
enforcing the new law until those reg¬
ulations were to effect
The new law, commonly referred
to as the Helms Amendment, after North
Carolina Republican Sen. Jesse Helms,
would have required customers to pro¬
sit bscri be to phone-sex services. Cur¬
rently, through a special, free request to
the phone company, customers are able
to block access to such services from
their individual telephone lines.
While the amendment targeted
any commercial phone-sex conversa¬
tions judged indecent. Helms’ motiva¬
tion for banning the services, as
revealed In his floor-debate comments,
was once again the ‘degeneracy* of
lesbians and gay men. The language of
the amendment focused on protecting
minors, who, the government argued,
Photo IL UyXmM
20 OlfTTWEEK August 29.1990
Queer Nation Goes to the World's Fair
NEW YORK — Neady ISO py mm snd tesbtans took tie subway
out to (he old WxkTi Mr grounds to psy a vtt to dx raigtom group that
ccmes to prole* Prtde Dsy at 5L Patrick's Cathedra! ewry The tw#ghi
action, a Queer Nation evert, bought together i pretkrtirandy ekfcrfy
gtihertog ef devout pdpln* and a botaerous crowd of kabtans and pry
mm rtrrt on highlighting for hypocrisy of furxfamrrtaiiBr Christiana.
WhOe the ‘rosary action,* as the event w*s dubbed, was con¬
frontational by design, ultimately there was little interaction
between the starkly delineated group* The supplicants, follower*
of the purportedly visionary homophobe, Veronica Leuken, piously
ignored the demonstrator* and Intoned the rorary while grouped
around the name of Mary at the Vatican Pavilion
The lesbian and gay protester* belligerently mocked the leukeft-
rtes wth chants of *Ybu say. "Don't fuck r V* say, 'Puck youT Occa¬
sionally, one of leuken •» devotees would throw holy water on the
demonstrators, and from tone to time, a group of arriving pilgrims
would find themtehes sunounded by a hostile crush of queers
1 know you were bom that way, and you can't help tt,‘ said
one reserved pilgrim, who wandered into the crowd of gay and
lesbian protesters, retaining her righteous composure even as sev¬
eral young gay men chanted "Bigot!’ In her face.
"Anyone who goes with another man is *kk,‘ war her only
reply. At the same time, her earnestness seemed to touch other
protester*, who sought to explain to her the contradictions inher¬
ent In the articles of faith she expressed.
later In the evening, after the demonstrators had broken through
the police tarter* separating the two gatherings and had moved to
the outer edge of the pilgrims’ devotional semicircle, that same
LeukenOe purposefully crossed through the Une of New York CRy
police to brtng miniature scapulars to her new queer friends
T got my scapular tangled up in my dirxgkberry ring" exclaimed
a delighted RoHerena, gay folk hero and unofficial queen of the queer
nation, who had accepted dx small package of devotionals and had
tmmedUtefy attempted to augment her finery with (he refigous medals
leukens, who claims to have regular visions of the Virgin
Mary and Jews Christ at the shrine, was not present
Despite a small police presence augmented at itaei by reinforce¬
ments from the other ride cf PhafOng Meadows, where an knmerae
pobce fort* was poised to intervene in the wildcat strike by prison
guards on neaitiy Rlken Island, there were no arrests —Mn* Iteyr*
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might call the phone-sex lines and
subsequently be exposed to sexually
explicit conversations if access to the
lines was not automatically blocked.
•It's a clear victory," remarked
Kendall Morrison, publisher of Out-
Week and president of Dial Informa¬
tion Services, one of the phone-sex
companies involved in the suit. "But I
really find it sad and disturbing that we
have to work and fight so hard to be
able to do something so simple as to
talk freely on the phone," Morrison
added. Both phone-sex company own¬
ers and gay publishers were at the
forefront of fighting the new laws.
The decision was particularly
heartening for the lesbian and gay
community, in which phone-sex has
boomed as an erotic and safe alterna¬
tive to anonymous contacts. Addition¬
ally, the ruling means that many gay
and lesbian publications that have
come to rely on the revenue generated
by phone-sex advertisements are no
longer in danger of folding from the
sudden decrease In sales that the virtu¬
al elimination of phone sex would
have meant
While the federal court did not
have jurisdiction to decide the consti¬
tutionality of the FCC regulations.
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Pund's Evan Wolfson, an attorney for
the plaintiffs, said that the decision
may have national implications
because the injunction enjoins the
attorney general of the United States
from enforcing the law. Additionally,
the judgment provides phone-sex
companies in other jurisdictions with
a favorable federal- court ruling to
dte on their own behalf.
—Nina Reyes
Artist with
AIDS wins
$1 lawsuit
NEW YORK—David Wbjnarowica,
a New York artist who sued a Missis¬
sippi-based conservative group for
appropriating his work out of context
in a pamphlet critical of artists funded
by the National Endowment for the
Arts is ambivalent about the federal
judge's recent decision in his case.
U.S. District judge William C. Con¬
ner issued a permanent injunction on
August 8 halting further publication
and distribution of the American Fami¬
ly Association's pamphlet, "Your Tax
Dollars Helped Pay for These Works of
Art." In addition, the executive director
of the arch-conservative group, David
E. Wildmon, was ordered to send a
court-approved correction to over
4,000 religious leaders who received
the pamphlet. Wojnarowicz, who
asked for $1 million in damages, was
awarded $1.
"My response was," Wojnarowicz
said, "cash or check?"
Wojnarowicz has mixed feelings
about the verdict. Seemingly a victor,
the artist was required to prove that he
suffered irreparable damage to his rep¬
utation and career. The judge thought
otherwise, citing that no museums or
galleries canceled shows because of
the pamphlet. "1 disagree," Wojnarow¬
icz said. "The judge is wrong."
In the pamphlet, snippets of
sexual images from 14 of Wojrurow-
Icz's paintings are arranged on a
grid. The sexual images in their
original context make up 2 percent
of the area of the total works. Woj¬
narowicz has called the appropria¬
tion "a mutilation." "They represent¬
ed this as my work," Wojnarowicz
said. "They stripped it of all political
and artistic content."
The artist was one of 24 whose
work about AIDS led the NEA to
threaten to defund Artists Space, a
gallery in TriBeCa where it was dis¬
played in a show entitled Witnesses.
Against Our Vanishing late last year.
Wojnarowicz was represented
by five lawyers, two from the Cen¬
ter for Constitutional Rights and
three from private firms. Both Wild¬
mon and Wojnarowicz can appeal.
"I'm waiting to see what my lawyers
say," Wojnarowicz said. "The cost is
so prohibitive, I can’t make the
decision."
—Paul Rykoff Coleman
In switch,
Dukakis
vetoes anti¬
gay foster-
care spec
BOSTON—In an odd twist of
events in Massachusetts’ five-year battle
over foster-care parenting restrictions on
gay men and lesbians, Gov. Michael
Dukakis suddenly seems an advocate of
gay and lesbian foster parents.
The change in Dukakis came Aug.
1, when the governor announced his
veto of a line in the state budget which
would have ordered the state Depart¬
ment of Social Services to "not know¬
ingly place a foster child with individu¬
als whose sexual orientation is an
obstacle to the psychological well¬
being of the chad." The bill also would
have restricted adoption and guardian¬
ship of children by gay men and les¬
bians. Dukakis vetoed the bill because
it could be "interpreted* as being dis¬
criminatory.
The restriction which Dukakis
vetoed, to fact, would have mirrored
his own former policy, which he with¬
drew in April in compliance with a
court ruling to a lawsuit brought by the
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and
Defenders and the Civil Liberties Union
of Massachusetts.
"It is both ironic and gratifying that
Dukakis, who originated this anti-gay
policy, should now use his power to
overrule (ill," noted David LaFontatoe,
Lobbying Director for the Coalition for
Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, which
pressured Dukakis to veto the policy.
In June and July, the coalition held a
press conference of gay and lesbian
parents urging Dukakis' veto and
served the governor a petition of 2,000
signatures protesting the anti-gay fos¬
ter-care bill and a letter signed by 24
state senators and representatives call¬
ing the bill "prejudiced in intent."
The foster-care controversy in
Massachusetts began in 1985 when
22 0UTTWEEK August 29,1990
Dukakis ordered the removal of two
foster-care children from the home of
two gay men. He then instituted an
executive policy which listed foster¬
parent priorities for the Department of
Social Services, stressing that gay men
and lesbians were to be used as foster
parents only as a last resort The state
Legislature also attached restrictive lan¬
guage to the DSS budget each year.
Opposition from liberals steadily
mounted, including two documentaries
on the positive aspects of gay and les¬
bian foster parents by the local public
television station, WGBH. And activists
formed the Gay and Lesbian Defense
Committee, which held rallies and vig¬
ils over the last five years.
With Dukakis' veto of the anti-gay
budget amendment, the current foster
parent policy does not discriminate
against gay men and lesbians. The
court ordered a removal of Dukakis'
list of priorities, and currently, the
decision is left up to the DSS social
workers, only advising that ‘parenting
experience* be the main criterion,
according to Joe Landolfi. press secre¬
tary for the executive office of Health
and Human Services—although sexual
orientation is a factor they can consid¬
er, like race, religion, education and
economic sums.
Ironically, the lobbyist for the
Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Politi¬
cal Caucus, Ariine Isaacson, who has
been the key gay presence on Beacon
Hill for eight years, lobbied on behalf
of the anti-gay restriction, drawing
anger and protest from gay community
activists. Isaacson, who said that the
amendment was "on behalf of both the
gay community and the community of
child-welfare advocates,’ was lambast¬
ed by several gay activists, including
French Wall, editor of the gay travel
magazine, the Guide.
Wall called Isaacson's support for the
bill ‘appalling* and wrote to her,
‘Attempting to appease homophobic
politicians ..makes us las indivkkialsl seem
like coflabonirionats, and as a community
it makes us look weak and stupid*
Isaacson defended her support for
the bill, claiming that sure legislators
had sated to her their need to vote on
something anti-gay since they were
‘under the gun’ for passing the gay
civil-rights bill in January, only the sec¬
ond statewide civil-rights law in the
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Out 'lakes
country to include sexual orientation
Isaacson said that by supporting this
bill she was able to help defeat a more
homophobic bill, which explicitly
called homosexuality and bisexuality
*an obstacle to the psychological well¬
being of children.*
—Carrie Wofford
Lesbian¬
positive Navy
sergeant
vindicated
NEW YORK—The military may
have to reexamine its anti-gay policies
after a Navy administrative review-
panel recently determined that a for¬
mer Marine sergeant should not have
been demoted for testifying as a char¬
acter witness for a lesbian colleague.
The Board for Correction of Naval
Records awarded back pay and reinstat¬
ed the good-service record of the for¬
mer sergeant, Christine R. Hilinski. At a
1988 court-martial, Hil inski testified that
Sergeant Cheryl Jameson's lesbianism in
no way interfered with her military
work. After this testimony. Hilinski was
demoted and her salary cut by $220 per
month, according to the American Civil
Liberties Union, which defended Hilins¬
ki. The ACLU, in papers filed with the
Navy administrative review-panel,
argued that Hilinski was demoted only
because "she was lenient in her posi¬
tion on homosexuality.*
Previous performance appraisals
had judged that she was ‘dedicated,
polished, professional and dependable,"
according to the ACLU. She served in
the Marines for 11 years, from 1978 to
1969- *1 strongly bdieve that sexual ori¬
entation should not be considered in
evaluating anyone's performance,*
Hflinsld said in a press release.
An ACLU spokesperson said that the
decision should discourage military super¬
visors from demoting officers based soldy
on thek views of sexual orientation.
William B. Rubcnstein, director of
ACLLTs Lesbian and Gay Rights Project,
said in a press release: "We will use this
victory to further advance our war
against the military’s homophobia. It will
be particularly important in our continu¬
ing challenge to ROTC discrimination on
campuses across the country.*
—Paul Rykoff Coleman
Court
exempts
newspapers
from gay-
rights law
WAUSAU, Wis.—An appeals court
here disagreed with three lesbians who
Candlelight memorial in Queens
NEW YORK—Members of the gay and lesbian commu¬
nity in Jackson Heights, Queens, will hold a candlelight
march on Saturday. Aug. 18, to memorialize Julio Rivera,
who was beaten to death there in an anti-gay attack July 2.
The inarch, followed by brief speeches to commemorate
Rivera, will start at 7 pm at the Long Island Savings Bank at
the intersection of 73rd Street and Broadway.
Rivera, 29, was attacked in a school playground at 77th
Street and 37th Avenue at about 3 am on July 2 and died
later that morning. Medical reports showed he had been
bludgeoned ten to 12 times in the head with the claw end
of a hammer and stabbed four or five tiroes in the chest
and bock, puncturing his lung. Despite community protest,
police at the 115 Precinct have not classified the murder an
anti-gay bias crime. Despite what OuiWetk sources called a
number of substantial leads, no arrests had been made at
press time.
The march is sponsored by tbe Julio Rivera Anti-Vio¬
lence Coalition (formed by four Jackson Heights residents,
including one of Rivera’s brothers and Alan Sack, his former
lover) and the New York City Lesbian and Gay Anti-Vio¬
lence Project. The march also has the unofficial support of
Queer Nation, the lesbian and gay direct-action group.
Organizers stressed that the event is to be a solemn com¬
memoration and memorial for Rivera, rather than a rally or
a protest, although more activist events may be planned
later.
The nearest subway stations are the Roosevelt Avenue-
Jackson Heights stop on the E and P trains, and the 74th
Strect-Broadway stop on the 7 train. A group will also gath¬
er at 6 pm outside the Lesbian and Gay Community Center
at 208 West 13th Street in Manhattan to travel to the march
together.
—John Voekker
24 OUTWWEEK August 29,1990
claim that they should be allowed to
place classified ads in a Green Bay
paper under the state's liberal public-
The women, Jay Hathaway and
Terry and Peggy Van der Veers, Wed
an appeal to the July 10 ruling by the
Third District Court of Appeals in
Wausau.
In 1906, Hathaway attempted to
place a classified ad in the Green Bay
Press-Gaztttt for Among Friends, a gay
and lesbian organization providing
information and referral services for
rural Wisconsin. About the same time,
the Van der Veers, a couple with the
same last name, tried to place an ad
for "unique, hand-painted sweatshirts
for lesbians.”
The newspaper, owned by Gan¬
nett, turned down both ads because
they contained the words "lesbian* and
"gay* with the explanation, "We fust
don't print those kinds of ads."
Hathaway and the Van der Veers
filed complaints under the state's civil-
rights law, which forbids sexual-orien¬
tation discrimination by a "public place
of accommodation or amusement."
This indudes "places of business* and
"any place where accommodations,
amusement, goods or services are
available either free or for a considera¬
tion." The three women argued that
the classified advertising section of the
region’s largest-circulation newspaper
was in effect a marketplace, subject to
the nondiscrimination requirements of
the law.
The court disagreed. Although the
literal meaning of the statute might
apply to the newspaper's classified ad
section, the court did not believe that
the Legislature intended such a result
The court's opinion appears to carve a
huge exception into die state's dvil-
rights law, which would presumably
allow newspapers to refuse advertising
based on the race, sex, age or other per¬
sonal characteristics of the advertiser.
Hathaway is represented by Wis¬
consin attorney Mark Boms. The Van
der Veers are represented by Paula
Ettelbrick of Lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund. Nan Hunter, for¬
mer director of the ACXU’s Lesbian and
Gay Rights Project, presented an oral
argument before the appeals court
—Arthur S. Leonard/New York
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Obituaries
Ethyl Eichelberger,
Grande Dame of
Queer Theater,
1945-1990
Beloved actor, playwright, perfor¬
mance artist. East Village drag queen and
grande dame of queer theater, Ethyl
Eichdbeiger was found dead in his home
on Staten Island by friends on August 12,
1990. He was 45 years old and took his life
less than a week after his most teceni play.
Das Vedanya Mama, had dosed at R&. 122
and on the eve of ho planned departure for
Washington, D C, where he was scheduled
to appear in Brechts The Caucasian CbaA
Circle at the Arena Theater.
Word of his suicide cast a pall this
week over the New York lesbian and gay
community, with friends, colleagues and
devotees of the inimitable performer
struggling to make sense of this sudden,
mortifying loss. By no means widely known
was the fact that Ethyl, like so many of his
fans, had been diagoned with AIDS and had
recently experienced exhaustion, wasting
and other debilitating effects related not
only to the virus but also to AZT There
were reports that he had stopped taking the
drug, which is the sole anti-viral yet
approved by the FDA, and had been
casting about in vain for an alternative
treatment Other reports stressed that in
addition to concern over his own
deteriorating health, Ethyl had assumed
primary responsibility for the cue of follow
performer Jonathan Brockmeyer, who
shared his Staten Island home and is
gravely ill with HIV-related complications
In the days since his death, a number of
commentators have observed that Ethyl's
decision not to dose his Anal play with his
signature ditty, "We Are Women Who
Survive,* may have been a portentous
omission, a kind of hint dropped to his
audience about his intention to die.
Ethyl'* life stoty has more than Its
share of uncanny aspects. The man who
was to become an icon of outrageous fag-
gotry was bom James Roy Eichefoerger to
Amish Memonke parents, on July 17, 1945,
in Pekin. Illinois. From an early age he
evinced a great passion for performance
and was recommended by a high-school
drama teacher to the theater department at
Knox College in nearby Galesbutg. In his
first year at Knox he portrayed both Oedi-
26 OUTTWEEK August 29,1990
pus and Hamlet, and by the time he left, in
1965. he had directed his own production
of Genet s The Maids, That year, having
won a prestigious ABC-TV scholarship to
study at the American Academy of Dramat¬
ic Arts, this singularty determined and
angular Midwestern son came to New
York. At AADA, Ethyl was trained in the
classical tradition, and following his gradu¬
ation, he joined Adrian Hall's Trinity
Square Repertory Company in Providence,
R.I., where he stayed for seven years.
In 1975, Ethyl returned to New York
and settled in a storefront on the Lower
East Side. Immediately and inevitably, he
made his way to the great Charles
Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company.
Although never formally a member of the
Ridiculous, Ethyl was a fervent student of
the experiments taking place there and he
was unabashedly enthralled by Ludlam's
genius. (Indeed, this Influence can be
sensed in everything he dared in the
theater.) Ethyl acknowledged his debt to
Ludlam not In any aesthetic manifesto but
in certain Ludanvinspked maxims he liked
to utter with faux simplicity during his
performances: ‘Put an extraordinary
person in sn ordinary situation,* for
instance, and: *You can't ask a difficult
person not to be difficult’ He was, In all,
in ten Ludlam productions, including
Camille, Salammbo, Der Ring Got!
Farblonjet and The Artificial Jungle,
Ludlam's final play, in which he had a
relatively small and speechless role and
was described by critics as stealing his
scenes by expat ‘eyebaS* acting. In order
to pay the bills. Ethyl got a license in
theatrical hairdressing from the Ultissima
Beauty School in 1975, the same year he
had his name legally changed to Ethyl in
honor of the great ladles of the stage
(Barrymore, say, and Merman), and over
the years, he did hair, makeup and
costumes not only for Ludlam but for a fair
number of off-Broodway casts.
In 1977, Ethyl staged Pbedre, the first
of the 33 plays he conceived and executed
during his short but prodigious career.
Fantastically undaasifiabie. these spectacles
were exemplary acts of brlcolige,
avant-garde, burlesque, camp, drag and
agitprop to create the most sublime effects
His plays can be described as inspired
adaptations of ether Great Tragedies—for
example. Hamlette (1964), Leer (1965),
Klytemnestra, the Nightingale of Argos
(1967) and Das Vedanya Mama (1990),
which was ’based on* Chehov's Three
Sisters and included a homoerotic dance
that registered, with hto characteristically
innocent but sardonic wt. Ethyl’s protest cf
the Helms Amendment—or Great Women
of History— Nefert-ti (1978). Minnie the
Maid (1981, winner of a Villager award),
Lucrexia Borgia (1982. winner of an Obre
award) and The Uncoins (19881 a Serious
Pun! commission)—with Ethyl of course
featured as the leading lady. These plotless
wonders were acclaimed by both
mainstream and downtown critics for the
brilliance of the writing the originality of
the staging and the spontaneity of die
performances, which marked an unusual
circumstance indeed in queer theater.
Ethyl's sensibility was informed by, in
addition to Ludlam's influence, his own
staggerin g erudition and a fascination with
improvisation. He was a regular performer
at Pyramid, where he danced in drag on
the bar for money, as well as at 8 B.C,
S-NAJ.U. and the other dubs that consti¬
tuted, in the mid-to-tate 70s and before the
establishment of spaces like P.S. 122,
Dixon Place and the Kitchen, the down¬
town performance-art scene. In this unpre¬
dictable atmosphere, he acquired his rather
large bag of attention-getting tricks the
fire-eating and the juggling, the acrobatic!
and the accordion-playing and his perfor¬
mances and plays we*e suffused with a
miasma of impromptu asides, mood-in¬
duced elaborations and his own star turns.
Ethyl financed the staging of his
work by doing conventional theatrical
piays. He appeared in. among ocher dis¬
tinguished productions, Lincoln Center's
Measure for Measure and The Comedy of
Errors with the Flying Karamazov Broth¬
ers, Yale Repertory's Trodus and Cressida,
John Jessurun’s Chang in a Void Moon,
the WPA Theatres Burnout Ber kele y , the
Broadway version of The Threepenny
Opera directed by John Dexter and star¬
ring Sting and the upcoming Oliver Stone
film about the rock band, the Doors, in
which Bthyi has a five-minute role playing
hanself, a fabulous East Village superstar.
Of late, Ethyl had more or less created his
own acting company in the manner of
Charles Ludbm, though unlike the Ridicu¬
lous, he and his collaborators—Black-Eyed
Susan, Mr. Fashion, Joni Mooasy, Helen
Schumacher and Jonathan Baker—lacked
a space. Certainly, a new Ethyl Ekhei-
berger play could be counted on to attract
attention of all kinds and a sellout crowd
The performances were an experience,
out there, not to be missed. As many Ok¬
ies no doubt will note. Ethyl's suicide,
along wfch the AIDS-related deaths of Jade
Smith and Charles Ludlam, signals the end,
or the destruction, of an Immensely
significant force In queer theater and, for
that matter, queer culture
It la no exaggeration to aay that
Ethyl Elchelberger was an astonishing
phenomenon. Standing more than six
feet tall (even before he put on wig and
heels), In a uttered gown cut low to
show the angel tattoo that covered his
back, the man's presence alone took
one's breath away. To those of ua in the
audience, his performances projected a
sweet, tender, generous soul who, then
again, knew everything there was to be
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August 29.1990 (XJTTWEEK 27
News Special Feature
Gay Games in Draws
Tens of Thousands
to Vancouver
by Jim Maits
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—
This is not a movement about sexual
preferences,' said emcee Robin Tyler at
the opening of Gay Games III. This is
a movement about the right to love.*
Gay Games III was an event about
gay people in a larger sense—physical,
but not just sexual; athletic, but cultural
as well. At its most idealistic, Gay
Games III was about a visionary ideal
of, as openly gay Canadian MP Sven
Robinson, quoting artist Judy Chicago,
put it, a 'New Eden' of sexual equality.
Those Ideals were defined in a
moving, if overlong, opening night cer¬
emony witnessed by 20,000 cheering
people on Aug. 4. The emotional high¬
light of the opening was easily the
entrance into the British Columbia
Place Stadium of the athletes grouped
by country, state and city, each in dis¬
tinctive uniforms and contributing to a
spectacle impressive in its numbers.
For the 7,000-plus athletes, the
games could be long and grueling, too.
Competition didnl officially end until 12
am on the dose of the match between
the New York and Berlin men's soccer
teams on August 11. They weren't able
to call it a day until 120 dusty minutes
of play—a regulation hour and a half,
plus two 15-minute overtimes—had
elapsed, with Berlin eking out a 1-point
victory, and a bronze medal.
The Games’ steady growth
became palpable at the triathlon, held
Monday morning at 7 am. At Gay
Games II in San Francisco, the
triathlon had been held in Berkeley
Hills, miles distant from public trans¬
portation There were only the ath¬
letes, a few friends and lovers, a scat¬
tering of volunteers and spectators and
no more than a half-dozen gay
journalists and photographers
28 OUTVWEEK August 2a 1990
In Vancouver, the triathlon was a
five-minute walk from the heart of the
city’s gay community. The competitors
surged down the English Bay Beach in
three waves—men's 30 and under,
men's 30 and over and women's—each
cohort nearly as large as the entire 1986
field. First-place finisher Ian Nash from
Melbourne Australia, repeated his Gay
Games II victory.
The triathlon was meticulously
organized down to the last detail.
Swimming, a sanctioned event run by
the host English Bay Team with the
help of Canada's national amateur swim
organization, displayed equally careful
preparation. Tennis seemed to run
itself, although at least one player com¬
plained that he was defaulted from the
tournament when he arrived for his
match, only to learn that it had been
rescheduled for an earlier time.
Participants in other sports were
not so lucky. Volleyball, the single
largest sport, just narrowly averted dis¬
aster. According to an official with the
North American Gay Volleyball Associa¬
tion, two hours before the initial cap¬
tains' meeting, Vancouver organizers
confessed that they didn't know how
many teams were coming, didn’t know
how to seed teams for competition and
didn't have a schedule. Volleyball tends
to be a contentious sport anyway (at
Gay Games II, there were charges that
a nongay member of the Cuban nation¬
al team was playing on the Miami
squad) and there were numerous com¬
plaints that higher-level teams were
playing in lower-level divisions to bol¬
ster their medal-winning chances.
Track and field was plagued by a
host of problems. On Sunday morning.
August 5. the distance runners learned
that only five—instead of the 20
promised—University of British Columbia
track officials would be on hand for
the week's events. Track-and-field
participants took up much of the slack.
But none of the track-and-ficid events
was sanctioned, meaning that the times
logged in the competition didn't count
as records for other athletic events.
The women's 10-K was the one
real fiasco. The course, more cross¬
country than road race, was unmarked
In spots. Some women got lost or
unwittingly took short cuts. To com¬
pound the problem, the men's 35-and-
over heat began dose to its 8:30 sched¬
uled start. That meant that the lead
pack of men runners, numbering 30 or
so, encountered the lead women on
the narrowest, most dangerous stretch
of the race. New York's Sue Foster, the
race's favorite, had to run on heavily
traveled Boundry Road to avoid the
crush of men on the path. The race
was declared unofficial and had to be
rerun on Friday.
In the whirlwind of events, gaug¬
ing the city’s reaction to the games was
difficult The local press—die Vancou¬
ver Sun and the tabloid Protince— ran
fairly brief, colorless stories. The
Wednesday Province carried an eight-
sentence summary of the games
attached to an opening sentence about
the 99-9 mile Games Criterium bike
race; it accompanied a big photograph
of bicyclists
Knights Wrestling
VANCOUVER—According to team
captain Andrew Till, the New York Knights
Wrestling club has come a long way since
1986, when it was unable to field a team at
Gay Games II This year, at Gay Gaines Ill.
20 Knights took to the mats, the largest
single wrestling contingent and fully 25
percent of the field.
The wrestlers at Gay Games III were
the result of what Till called an ‘evolution*
in the chib. 'Wc grew out of an SAM dub,*
he said. ‘Our training In 'real' wrestling
only started last September.'
Till characterized the group as ‘a
heavy-duty camaraderie club.* According
to assistant coach and wrestler Ray Jarvis,
the group stayed together at the same
hotel, practiced together once, and had a
night-before group dinner, all solidifying
DEE DAWSON. SEATTLE/POWER LIFTING
CATHY HARRIS. D C /DISCUS
the sense of being a tc
era and pad in hand, proved an unexpected
The bouts, staged on two mats in a physical, as well as visual, treat
h school gym on Friday, Aug 10, were
At the closing ceremonies, the medal-
five-minute (or less) bursts of intensity, heavy group proudly ran down their list of
Early on, especially, a bout might last only accomplishments: 6 gold, 3 stverandt bronze
intensified. Bouts that lasted the I
full time inevitably drew a crowd f
of onlookers on every side, more
often than not with a knot of
Knights shouting advice and
encouragement to their teammate.
Wrestlers tend to be a cocky,
assertive bunch. Before his one
match. Jarvis declared, *111 either
pin him, or hell pin me.* (Jarvis
did the pinning and won the gold.)
They tend to be a touchy-feely
group, loo Roaming the sidelines
amorvg the exeked wrestlers, cam-
30 0UTTWEEK August 29.1990
The Tuesday Sun ran a prominent
Op Ed box—complete with illustra¬
tion—containing four anti-gay letters to
the editor, and featured a gay-hashing
story and a picture of homophobic
graffiti spray-painted on B.C Place in a
metro-section story. Travelling from
event in venues all over the metro area,
the games were obviously bringing
hefty amounts of gay visibility and cash
to Vancouver’s tree-lined suburban
streets. The Sun reported that the
games would pump between 28 and 30
million (Canadian] gay dollars into the
city's economy.
Perhaps the Vancouver media’s
slim coverage was due, in part, to the
treatment that Games organizers gave
the press. Reporters and photographers
were often treated as necessary, hardy
tolerable evil or a gang of freeloaders
in need of firm guidance. ‘Why are
they so hostile to the press?* Pascal
Ferant, the correspondent from Paris'
Got Pled asked during a lull in the div¬
ing competition.
*1 trust that you are getting all that
you need,* Games publicist Doug
Hughs said to reporters at Wednesday
night’s International Fantasy Ball. But
co mm u n ications director Sarah Temple
had threatened to revoke Out Week's
credentials for trying to photograph the
physique contest in the ornate
Orpheum Theater the night before. The
media was also barred from the Les¬
bian and Gay Band’s Wednesday night
Orpheum Theater concert. *No media,*
this reporter was told upon trying to
enter the swimmer-hosted Splash
Dance held under Vancouver’s glittery
Science Center geodesic dome.
The press was allowed into anoth¬
er of the Games' social events, the
feather and leather International Fanta¬
sy Ball. Amidst the demons, drag
queens and lady vampires, the man in
the California Highway Patrol Uniform
(his work dothes, he said) and the man
in the Divine Miss M outfit (complete
with sequined mermaid tail and motor¬
ized wheelchair), one caught glimpses
of athletes (and parts of their
anatomies) that ooe had seen before in
a different milieu.
The physique contest was as much
a show as an athletic endeavor. After
the intermission, a group of men and
women in the lighter-weight classes
took seats In the front rows. As one of
the women, performing to classical
music, hit ’shot' after "shot* in her
posing routine, her colleagues could
be heard orgasmically murmuring,
'Yes...Yes-Yes," in tribute to her abili¬
ty. Atlanta Lightweight Dan Rohnney’s
posing routine stirred up cries of ’Dan!
Dan! Dan!* from the excited audience.
As the week concluded, the inten¬
sity mounted. Powerlifting proved just
as much a women’s as a men’s event;
Edmonton's Donna Dow, another art-
gallery owner, with her unique haircut
and overwhelming prowess, wowed
the crowd. One woman’s trainer,
Dale Barnhard
VANCOUVER—Washington, D.C.,
swimmer Dale Bamhard was competing In
Vancouver for the first time in nearly 30
years. In <1, <2 and <3, Bamhard, swtnv
mlng for the Washtngton-area Congression¬
al Country American Athletic Union swim
team, was a junior all-American breast¬
stroke standout, with some national (coords
to her credit. In 1961, she toured Europe
with the AIl-Amertcan team
Gay Games HI put Bamhard back in
the swim. In some ways, she says. It was
very different. *1 was pretty young then. I
was mostly concerned about fitting in.’ she
said ai the opening ceremonies, then
added, looking around, *1 feel pretty fitted-
in here.*
But In some ways, Games m proved a
lot like old times. *1 was looking through
the heat sheets,* she said, “and I saw the
name of a woman that I haven't seen since
that world lour in 1961* Later, at ihe swim¬
ming meet *1 found the woman We didn’t
recognize each other. We had a lot to catch
up on.* Competition was, she added, *vety
Invigorating We still feel the same way
when we are competing as if we were right
back in 1961.*
How did she do? Three golds and a
bruise,’ Bamhard said, pointing lo a purple
spot above her Up, gained during one of
the water polo matches In which she com¬
peted as part of a mixed men s and
women s, Chicago D C team. Bamhard was
particularly pleased with her standing in the
women's field. *In the 200 (meter breast
stroke] my time was second only to a
woman who was 24, and she only beat me
by a second. Not bad for a woman who
will turn 43 on Monday.
-3M.
32 OUTTWEEK August 29,1990
fttno rvoylrv*
women competitors she had ever seen.
The men’s competitors pot on quite a
show, talking to the audience, grunting
and groaning and flashing pumped-up
grins and raised fists upon successfully
completing a squat. There was general
pandemonium in the West End Com¬
munity Center Gym when Don Miles
successfully completed a 550-pound
squat for a gold in his weight class.
Excitement built when the team
sports came to a conclusion. There
were at least two major upsets; a team
of Atlanta all-stars came from behind to
beat the Los Angeles Griffs in the soft-
ball finale, handing the Griffs their first
loss all season. In soccer, Los Angeles
eked out a 1-0 victory over San Francis¬
co, due, in part, to brilliant work by
goalie Frank Laanan In stopping a
penalty kick. The San Francisco Spikes
experienced its first-ever loss in gay
play, since Gay Games I in 1982.
If there were any practical lessons
from the Games, they were that gay
people are going to have to learn
how to cope with the problems creat¬
ed by the movement's increasing
scale. Vancouver, a small gay commu¬
nity just emerging from the closet,
performed heroically in the face of
the worldwide onslaught.
Still, many things fell through the
cracks. There wasn’t enough provision
made for persons with AIDS. One dart
player from Houston, too fatigued to
complete the full tournament, was
denied a team silver medal until Hous¬
ton protested vociferously. Lesbian and
Gay Band president John MacCaulley
said that the bands had to scramble to
find a car for PWAs so that they could
participate in Monday’s parade celebrat¬
ing Vancouver’s Gay Pride Day. Facili¬
ties were strained to the utmost, and
there were long lines all week outside
most bars and around Celebration '90s
food and beverage ticket-sales tables.
The lack of forethought on making
the entire event accessible to the press
reflected a deeper issue—whether the
games were a celebration put on pri¬
marily for the benefit of the athletes, as
Celebration *90 Communications Direc¬
tor Sarah Temple insisted, or whether
the Games were just as much about
making a statement to the world, as the
opening-night speakers insisted.
KITTY TSUI (TOP) & B C OLIVER. S.F/
GOLD MEDAL WINNERS. FEMALE PAIRS
Whatever the bumps on the road
to New Eden, there can be no doubt
that, for most of the athletes and cultur¬
al participants, Gay Games III was an
uplifting, exhilarating event. If Gay
Games III left gay Vancouver drained
and exhausted, it also made a deep
impression upon the dry's gay commu¬
nity. At the Fantasy Ball was Rose Gar-
butt, bare from the waist up, save for a
pair of suspenders, a leather cord about
her neck and a leather cap. The chef at
Doll and Penny’s eatery which serves as
the informal community center of gay
Vancouver, Rose marvelled at the line
that had appeared at the cafe's door
five days earlier.
She said that the invasion had
'changed Vancouver, opened it up.
You see girls holding hands, guys
holding hands. I witnessed a fag-bash¬
ing the other night, and the cops were
there in three minutes. Four squad cars
Amazing. *T
, . world considers gay sports (to bel fluff;
KODin Chambers were proving that lant the case * Cham-
VANCOUVER—The Gay Games ideal
of inclusion Indud ed straig ht people as well. ^T^^lnlT^aSd Sto cS
Jurt.sk wrestling director Robin Chambers ^ ” ir!£ZL
Born in Los Angeles, Chambers Ss^^Sto w ■** -J.M.
moved to San Prancbco In 1977 She says ^ wunoemu w me J>-»•
that she's been running wrestling touma- j
menu, primarily for high schools and coi- 3
leges, for 22 years. ^
Chambers got Involved with gay g
wrestling in 1962 at Gay Games L At the £
time, she was married lo a gay man, who
was working on Gay Games I, so natural¬
ly, she helped out Chambers and her hus¬
band divorced after two and a half years.
CWe decided we liked being friends more
than we liked being married,’ she says)
Since 1962, she says, the wrestlers
have gotten to be of ’much higher caliber.
At least two teams, in Los Angeles and San
Francisco, are now year-round, and wres¬
tle in touma menu and against each other *
She also approves of the statement
the Gay Games, and gay wrestling In par¬
ticular. make. The majority of the spotting -
Team NY: 13 wrestling
medals, Mario Thomas
drag and more
by RaclMl Lari*
VANCOUVER—With no major
corporate funding, no Ted Tumer-
| esque sugar daddy able to take a $45-
million loss on the event, Gay Games
III was, by and large, a low-tech affair
where the media were concerned. No
instantly generated stat sheets were
available, nor overall medal counts by
team. The only way to find out how
our own Team New York faired at the
Games was to roam around among
the athletes at the dosing ceremonies
and talk to the ooes who had medals
around their necks. By no means sci¬
entific, this report purports to be only
a sampling of how Gotham’s 300-plus
representatives scored. Apologies in
advance for anyone overlooked—
please let us know how you or your
team made out.
Marie Helene-Charlap was the
overall women’s winner of the
triathlon with a time of 2:1940. The
29-year-old psychology student origi¬
nally from Paris, Prance, also took the
gold in the 1500-metcr (just under one
mile) swim. Chariap called it 'heaven
to compete here,* adding that ’sports
is something that bonds people. The
beauty of being here is the second
bond—that of sexual freedom’ Char-
lap trains with Front Runners-New
York and the Red Tide Swim Team.
One big upset here was Long
Island’s own Cynthia Sherman
musding her way to the gold medal in
the female middleweight division of
the physique competition, one of the
favorite sports at the Games. With her
parents there cheering her on, Sherman
went all the way in her very fir# body¬
building competition. ’A year ago I
was following Joan Jen and the Black-
hearts around the country, trying to
find myself,* she said. Then someone
gave the 22-year-old a gift certificate to
a gym, and a brickhouse was bom.
Tom Cracovia. head of Team New
York, was the only other New Yorker
placing in physique. He picked up the
bronze for men’s masters. In the 40-49
age group.
In the powerlifting competition,
Sheila Davis took the bronze after a com¬
bined lift of 610 pounds. It was her first
competition. Among the men, Thomas
Tederco took the silver medal.
Front Runners-New York, the gay
and lesbian running club, sent 60
hoofers to the games. Patrick Barker
came in second overall in the
marathon, with a time of 2:4}:00.
Inger Johanne Berger took the gold in
the marathon for her age group. Berger
won a total of seven gold medals and
one silver for different running
events. Sue Foster was also a big win¬
ner, taking the gold for her age group
in the 10-K, 5-K and 1500-meter
footraces. Also of FrontRunners-New
York were Gene Silbert, 62. and John
Kiley, 61, two of the oldest runners at
the track. The two men have been
together— they call themselves ’spe¬
cial friends’—for over 40 years and
shared the gold and silver medal in
both the 10-K and 5-K runs (Silbert
grabbing both golds).
Even at poolside, coach Paul
•Splits’ Fortonl wasn't specific about
Team New York Aquatics' success.
‘We've gotten our share of gold and
silver medals,* he said, adding that
"just about everybody is doing person¬
al bests, which is in accordance with
the spirit of the Gay Games.’ The
New York swim team made its great¬
est impact with their entry in the pink
flamingo relay. A tradition at gay swim
meets, the relay is a drag event meant
34 OUTYWEEK August 29.1990
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Furnishings 1
Entertaining
Fall Fashion
to cut through the tension of a com¬
petitive meet. Sending out 40 identi¬
cally clad Mario Thomases in That
Girl drag. New York earned the
sneering wrath of the other losing
teams. ‘All the teams hate us because
we were so simple yet elegant,’
swimmer Don Sumada theorized. 'We
don’t know how to ever top it.’
Bruce Hayes, a swimmer on the
1964 Olympic gold medal U.S. Olympic
team in Los Angeles, recorded the low¬
est time on the individual medey relay
for Team New York in Vancouver
In other sports: New York sent
five men's volleyball teams, compet¬
ing at three levels. Two of them, the
Stammers and the Gladiators, played
each other in a bronze-medal round,
with the Gladiators winning. In
men's soccer, the Rambler’s came in
fourth overall. In women's soccer.
New York held on with a 5-0 record
until eliminated by Colorado in the
quarter-finals. Soccer was a particu¬
larly grueling event, calling up teams
for daily games In Vancouver's
pounding heat.
In women's slow-pitch softball,
also a daily grind in the shadeless
sun, the Ballbusters had all of five
minutes between winning an extra¬
inning match with St. Louis and play¬
ing ball with a well-rested Portland
team. They took the silver in the con¬
solation round. The women's touch-
football team was knocked out by
the women of Tamaki Aotearoa, the
Maori name for Auckland, Australia.
In martial arts, all five women
(no men made die trip) from New York
who competed won medals. The
Knights Wrestling Club, competing in
its first Gay Games, took the most
medals of any team with a total of 13.
Once the athletes' bruises are
healed. Team New York and its sup¬
porters will begin readying our own
city for the next Gay Games in “94.
Dubbed ’Unity in '94' the $5-m»llion
celebration promises to be twice as
big as Gay Games III and will take
place in comparatively clement June
rather than sweltering August. Lee
Sharmat, vice president of New York
in '94 and left-fielder for the Ball¬
busters softball team, said that she
was copiously taking notes ’on
everything that went wrong here, so
we don) make the same mistakes.’▼
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August 29,1990 OUTTWEEK 35
Commentary by Susie Day
I n mid-July, tennis star Margaret
Court announced that Martina
Navratilova—who jubilantly leapt
into the stands to hug her lover, fol¬
lowing her recent win at Wimble¬
don—"hasn't been a good example" for
young players. "It is very sad for chil¬
dren," Court added, "to be exposed to
(homosexuality].’
OH, MY LORD IN HEAVEN, MAR¬
TINA, COULD THIS BE TRUE??? It's one
thing to be an open lesbian, but not to
be a good example—why. that's
SHOCKING. In the interest of science
and objectivity, this reporter ventured
into the streets to get the opinion of the
masses. Ignoring people's faddish re¬
quests to discuss the Persian Gulf crisis
and the possibility of World War III, I
asked the question that will live on for
centuries: "Do you think Martina
Navratilova is a good example for
today’s youth’" I got these responses:
Just Wendy—housewife and liberal.
Who, me? Well, personally, I think
the choice should be up to the individ¬
ual. Gosh. Even more personally, how¬
ever, I think that if I were a youngster
today, I would definitely not choose
Martina Navratilova as my role model.
Although I'm sure she's a very fine per¬
son in her own right.
It’s just that I've always been boy-
crazy. It's my personal choice. I guess,
deep down. I'm just your typical. grade-A,
wholesome, normal, all-American girt, and
loving every minute of it Gosh, I remem¬
ber all the silly phases I went through to
become a woman. There were date rapes,
an illegal abortion and a teenage mar¬
riage. when my husband used to beat
me. Once I even won a whole keg of
beer in a wet T-shirt contest, after which I
was almost gang-banged by the local
high-school football team.
But you know what the funny thing
is? All during the craziness 1 lived
through as a teenager, I would have just
died if one lesbian had laid one finger
on me. It would have ruined my life.
That's what I mean by "grade-A, whole-
same, normal." I can't help who I am. I
guess you could say that, as a woman, I
have really lived. Gosh. I wonder if Mar¬
tina has any idea of what she’s missing.
Muffle Wentworth—aspiring teen
tennis pro:
Like, frankly? like, Martina has really
disappointed me as a role model, OK?
For one thing, Zina Garrison has much
cuter legs. Like, I’d kl to get ter in a hot
tub. So Martina jumped into the stands to
kiss her lover. So big deal? Like, / didn't
see much. Like, all the wrist action was,
like, confined to her tennis racket, you
know? A bunch of us impressionabie ado¬
lescent giris were standing around ydling,
"Hey, Marty* Like, stick your tongue in
her mouth! Show us your panties, OK?"
Things like that. But they just ignored us.
Sooooo midlife and boring This sets a
very bad example for young players, you
know? Like, I get real sad if I'm not ex¬
posed to enough homosexuality.
Well, it set a pretty good example
for me. But then, I’m a man. That
Navertilover gal ain’t no man. So there's
a problem. Now, if she was a man, she
could go around grabbin' girls in pub¬
lic. pinchin' their rear ends, snappln'
their bra straps and all. I wouldn't have
a problem with that. Maybe we'd even
go out for a couple beers. I’d give her a
friendly sock on the arm, get her to buy
a black lace teddy for the girlfriend.
Ptnito But I cant do that, because she's
a woman. And women kissing other
women in bleachers—well, that leads to
stronger stuff. I know. I’m a man. I read
die National Enquirer
See, there's this feature story in the
Enquirer, all about these disgusting,
sex-crazed females who think that if
they can play tennis as good as men,
then they can act like men after the
game. Accordin' to this article, these
old iocker-room lezzies lure these
sweet, innocent young girls into their
hot tubs and turn them on to their
twisted lesbian lifestyle. And that’s only
the tip of the iceberg.
Speakin' as a man, I am fed up
with this sort of stuff. These days,
women want it all. They’re takin' over
our jobs, changin' the natural order of
things, screamin' all the lime about af¬
firmative action. Well, by damn, sex
with girts is one thing affirmative ac¬
tion ain’t gonna screw up. Hell, what
are crotchless panties for, anyhow, if
not to help propagate the spedcs? This
whole world is goin’ to hell In a hot
tub. As a man, I gotta do what I, as a
man, gotta do. That’s why as a man, I
am standin' here, outside of this dis¬
gustin' dyke bar...holdin' this big oT
baseball bat...waitin'. ▼
36 OUTTWEEK August 29.1990
D H Ml ■ I TIDINGS^
Esquire, New York and Time
by Henry Yeager
T he August Issue of Esquire
magazine has a typically bigot¬
ed aitidc by Pete Hanall called
'Confessions of a Heterosexu¬
al.* Here Is a sample of the
man's vidousness: Tm tired of listening
to people who identify themselves exclu¬
sively by what they do with their codes
Discuss the subject long enough with
even the most liberal, straight males of
my generation, and you discover
that...homosexuals are still seen with a
mixture of uneasiness and contempt* In
that familiar folksy, man-of-the-people
style affected by the older, "liberal* gener¬
ation of newspaper columnists (the
Jimmy Breslins and the Andy Rooneys),
Hamill, In lingering detail, lays out a litany
of Ues and half-truths about gays to ex¬
plain why he *used to be* homophobic
but now just wishes that gays would shut
up—especially about AIDS and fag^iash-
ing. It’s one of the hypocrite's oldest
rhetorical tricks: In the process of pre¬
tending to deplore an idea, you enumer¬
ate all the reasons for embracing It
He begins, as many columns by
Hamill and Bresiin and Rooney do, with
scenes from his humble boyhood in
which he conflates gays and child mo¬
lesters: *1 used to believe that homosex¬
uals were people who preyed exdusive-
ly on the very young.* His use of the
word ‘exclusively* demonstrates that his
adult self still believes that we’re child
molesters—but only part-time.
The working-class saga continues
as Hamill joins the Navy and finds
more gays ’on the prowl* for kids in
the sailor bars. These *kids,* mind you,
are servicemen—past the age of con¬
sent, ready to fight a war and them¬
selves out looking for sex. Finally, dur¬
ing the '60s, our hero matures:
'Gradually the stereotypes I carried
were broken by experience.*
Then came AIDS, and all the ho¬
STUOIES FROM THE HUMAN BODY, 1S7S
By French Becon
mophobia resurfaces. Tve lost all pa¬
tience with the paranoid oratory of gay
radicals. 1 can't abide their self-pitying
victimhood.* This last thought is em¬
phasized in a quarter-inch pull quote.
The argument that Andy Rooney made
famous follows; Hamill asserts that
AIDS is caused by a lifestyle decision,
likening it to lung cancer and smoking,
alcoholism and drinking.
There's not much you can do to
change the Hamills and Breslins and
Rooneys of the world. They're fearful
and resentful, and their comfortable
world of white, male, heterosexual
privilege is crumbling around them.
They want to return to the happy
days of their youth when women
were second-class citizens, Blacks
couldn't vote, and gay men and les¬
bians didn't exist. (Actually, Hamill’s
entire rant is against gay men: Les¬
bians still don't exist in his version
of a world of gays dominated by
their ‘cocks. *)
7b# New York Times recently pub¬
lished a major, long-overdue artide on
homophobia. *It can be traced primarily
to hatred based on fear and self-right¬
eousness. Researchers have found (that
AIDS] has given bigots an excuse to act
out their hatred,' wrote the Times. This
drivel sounds like Fete Hamill to me.
Even if we can't educate Hamill,
we can let Esquirt know that by pub¬
lishing his diatribe, they have given
thousands of bigots and bashers across
the country an excuse to flaunt their vi¬
ciousness. And this artide is not an iso¬
lated incident at Esquirt In the July
issue, Edward Hoogland opined that the
great moral lapse of contemporary fic¬
tion writers was their failure to inform
the American public that gay men's 'ex¬
cretory orifices* were being applied 'in
a manner that mamma l* had all but
stopped using 70 to 100 million years
ago,* thus causing the AIDS plague.
While AIDS may be bringing out the
bigots (as the Times wrote), Esquire is
amplifying their voices.
Write to Mr. Lee Eisenberg, Editor,
Esquire, 1790 Broadway, New York, NY
10019, or call him at (212) 459-7500.
The undercurrent of these paint¬
ings is homosexuality...even in the be¬
ginning they were about nakedness
and carnal loathing, corruption and the
disease of humanness.*
The former quote comes from a re¬
view of a summer-long show of the
British master of angst, Pranas Bacon, at
the Museum of Modern Ait. Written by
Kay Larsen for New York magazine, it dis¬
cusses Bacon’s expression of the primal
scream and the power with which he
conveys what it's like to have your skin
stripped off and your flayed nerves
rubbed in the dirt (indeed, the reviewer
in Out Week, no. 56, July 25, expressed
much the same opinion).
The problem, from a defamation
perspective, comes when Larsen equates
38 OUTWWEEK August 29.1990
Bacon's grossness and corruption with
h o mos ex uality. After this quotation Link¬
ing homosexuality, loathing and disease,
she continues with a description of
■open-mouthed screaming orifices
mounted on long throats being receivers
as well as disseminators, attractors as
well as repulses" Larsen concludes the
paragraph by remarking how Bacon's
timing coincides with what she calls the
AIDS specter.
The revulsion in Bacon's painting,
and the carnal loathing, are universal
themes of the 20th century and are not
specific to homoaacuals, as she implies
(because she knows Bacon Is gay).
Straights hove open-mouthed orifices tool
At New York magazine, there's al¬
ways been, if not an undercurrent of
homophobia, at least a marked indiffer¬
ence to the feelings and concerns of
lesbians and gay men. Just a few weeks
ago, this column discussed the maga¬
zine's special Issue on the New York
night life that totally Ignored lesbians
and reduced the few gay men to
stereotypes. Rhode Koenig has slan¬
dered us In her book reviews; John
Simon has done the same In his theater
column. All this indicates trouble at the
top, a lack of editorial sensitivity to les¬
bians and gays. You can address these
issues by writing to Edward Kosner, Ed¬
itor. New York magazine, 755 Second
Ave , New York, NY 10017, or call him
at (212) 880-0700.
The July 30 issue of 7Tma maga¬
zine, the one with "Mr Germany* on
the cover, has a two-page profile of
Edmund White, complete with studio
photo. White is the author of. among
other books, A Boy's Own Story, The
Joy of Gay Sax and. most recently, Tbe
Beautiful Room Is Empty. The profile
Is sympathetically drawn, with White
presented as a warm, genuine person.
Maybe there are one or two points
that are problematic, but they occur in
quotations presumably from White's
own mouth.
'Jfe need more positive pieces like
this one to balance the Pete Hamills of
the world. TOite to the editors of Time.
1271 Sixth Ave.. New York. NY 10020. W
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CRUISES
Positive Alternatives
QUACKBUSTERS II
The forces of evil threaten FDA freedom of choice
by Bob Lederer
In recent years, licensed physicians
nationwide have been threatened,
suspended or even criminally pros¬
ecuted for using nontoxic uncon¬
ventional treatments against AIDS,
even with the Informed consent of
people with AIDS.
Emprise Inc., a corporation led by
insurance-industry consultant and
attorney Grace Powers Monaco, Is
seeking government funding to es¬
tablish a computerized blacklist of
alternative AIDS treatments to
warn doctors and patients against
“the dangers and general worthless¬
ness of unproven approaches"—and
to help insurance companies Justify
stopping tbetr already sharply limit¬
ed reimbursements for alternative
treatments. (Emprise is renewing its
search for federal funding after an
April rejection credited to ACT UP'S
national campaign of opposition.)
For marry years, the FDA has harassed
and legally attacked manufacturers of
nutritional supplements and doctors
using nontoxic alternative treatments,
alleging that tbetr treatment approach¬
es were illegal without that agency's
approval Montoxic products used by
people with AIDS and people with can¬
cer have been at least temporarily
withdrawn from sale, and medical
clinics have been harassed and raided
by FDA agents.
In June, the California Senate passed a
"health fraud’ bill that would let po¬
lice confiscate the property, cash and
corporate assets of anyone merely
charged—not even convicted—of a
long list of "offenses" involving pre¬
scribing or promoting unapproved
treatments. AU proceeds would go to
prosecutors. A major focus of the bill
is AIDS treatments.
W f hat do aU these events
have in common? They
are the direct or indirect
products of a wen-coor¬
dinated network of self-
proclaimed ‘quackbusters.* The Na¬
tional Council Against Health Fraud
holds periodic conferences and offers
a constant array of public events,
media interviews, booklets and ‘guest
editorials' which present blatantly bi¬
ased opinions in the name of ‘expert
Information.* Personnel and, in some
cases, funding for the council's activi¬
ties come from local American Medi¬
cal Association affiliates, the health-
insurance industry, the Food and Drug
Administration and (behind the
scenes) the pharmaceutical industry.
From Sept 16-18, in Kansas tty, Mo.,
the council (using its local resource
center, a ‘consumer-information
institute*) will stage its latest extrava¬
ganza, a national conference called
•Quackery, Health Fraud and Misinfor¬
mation.* This conference, like those
before It, will be a strategy and train¬
ing session for the medical establish¬
ment's troops in their ongoing stuck
against alternatives to orthodox
medicine. It represents the continued
effort by the AMA and big drug compa¬
nies to suppress their competition and
by insurance companies to reduce their
coverage—thus denying all people
freedom of treatment choice.
These conferences are used to
broaden the intense propaganda cam¬
paign against alternative and holistic
health care, falsely lumping k all under
the terms ‘quackery* and ‘baud' (often
cleverly mixing worthwhile treatments
into Ibis of real scams to blur the distinc¬
tions) This campaign has taken on ur¬
gency as alternative approaches to AIDS
and cancer—including nutrition,
acupuncture, herbs, stress m a n ag em e nt
and nontoxic unapproved drugs—have
shown increasingly positive results in ex¬
tending life and improving quality of life
(see sidebar). Predictably. AIDS will be
a major focus of this year's conference.
The AMA, convicted in federal
court in 1987 of conspiring to destroy
the chiropractic profession, is a co¬
sponsor of the conference, and the
FDA, running a series of 20 like-minded
‘AIDS fraud* regional conferences this
year, will have a prominent role in
Kansas City. Grace Powers Monaco's
anti-alternative Can die lighters Cancer
Foundation is one of the ‘cooperating
organizations.* Among the speakers will
be officials of Monaco's Emprise corpo-
ration, which is still seeking to fund an
AIDS treatment blacklist. Another key
‘cooperating* group b the Health Insur¬
ance Association of America, which has
long sought to reduce its already paltry
reimbursements for any treatments not
100-per cent FDA- and AMA-approved
—even experimental drugs.
One of the council's affiliated
groups, on whose advisory board sev¬
eral speakers at Kansas City (and their
ally, Grace Powers Monaco) serve, is
the American Council on Science and
Health, another ‘consumer-information
institute.* But genuine consumer groups
have exposed the council as ■ lobbyist
for the drug, food-processing, fast-
food, pesticide, oil and chemical indus¬
tries. The council's donor list is foil of
the top Fortune 500 companies in
those fields, and the group’s press re¬
leases (which many media quote with¬
out revealing who the council repre¬
sents) issue a constant stream of attacks
on advocates of environmental regula¬
tion, holistic health, limits on chemicals
in food and so on. These are the forces
behind the ‘quackbusting* campaign.
The tactics of the ‘quackbusters’
show that their real goal b not ‘con¬
sumer protection* but suppression of
information critical of the medical es¬
tablishment Among many examples:
•A leading official of the National Council
Against Health Fraud, Dr. Victor Her¬
bert, filed a muttimilliorY-doUar lawsuit
in 1968 against 26 individual and or¬
ganizational alternative health advo-
40 OUTTWEEK August 29,1990
cates. He charged them with ‘slander,
libel, defamation and conspiracy' for
exposing his bias and distortions. (A
federal fudge has already dismissed
charges against 22 defendants and re¬
fected the conspiracy charge.)
•At a public university seminar on
cancer treatments in Iowa Cly in 1987,
Vitamins and
Meditation:
"Bizarre,"
"Fraudulent"
AIDS Treatments?
The outrageousness of the
'quack busters" can be seen in a re¬
cent circular on ‘False Hope From
Fraudulent AIDS Treatments’ pub¬
lished by the Food and Drug Admin¬
istration and the Council of Better
Business Bureaus. A choice excerpt:
‘The range of (fraudulent) treat¬
ments...is limited only by the imagi¬
nations of the con artists. Here's a
list of some of the more bizarre
ones: a processed blue-green algae
(pond scum)..., garlic pills..., high-
potency vitamin supplements....
There are also proclaimed ‘mood el¬
evators’ or 'stress reducers,’ which
are touted as cutes. Some examples
are: meditation..., visualization...,
yoga....The consensus of studies
done on treatment plans using sev¬
eral of these activities is that they
may increase one’s ability to deal
with pain and accept the disease,
but they have no effect on the
course of the illness.*
What these authoritative-sound¬
ing statements cover up is the fact
that each treatment approach listed
has a growing body of both theoreti¬
cal and clinical evidence of effective¬
ness in alleviating symptoms, extend¬
ing life and improving quality of life
for PWAs. If there weren't lives in the
balance, it would be almost amusing
to hear the medical establishment
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AIDS Treatment News
Mycoplasma: CRI Plans
Doxycycline Treatment Study
by John S. James
N ew York's Community Re¬
search Initiative, or CRI,
one of the pioneers of
community-based AIDS re¬
search, is developing a trial to see
whether the antibiotic doxycycline
can help certain patients with an ARC
diagnosis—and whether a blood test
for mycoplasma infection can predict
who might benefit. This trial will test
the hypothesis of Luc Montagnier,
M.D.—one of the discoverers of the
AIDS virus—that mycoplasma infec¬
tion might be an important cofactor in
the development of AIDS.
Background
Mycoplasmas are organisms be¬
tween viruses and bacteria in com¬
plexity. They are known to cause
some human diseases, and they can
be controlled with certain antibi¬
otics. During the last several years,
Shyh-Ching Lo, M.D., and other re¬
searchers at the U.S. Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology found a my¬
coplasma which appeared to be a
previously unknown species in or¬
gans of 22 of 34 persons who had
died of AIDS and reported evidence
that this mycoplasma may be causing
organ failures. In laboratory tests,
the antibiotics most active against
this mycoplasma appear to be doxy¬
cycline and ciprofloxicin.
At a special meeting organized at
the Sixth International Conference on
Montagnier reported laboratory stud¬
ies supporting a hypothesis that my¬
coplasma might be a major cofactor
in the development of AIDS—not just
an opportunistic infection. His team
found mycoplasma in the blood of
about one-third of AIDS patients; the
organisms are hard to detect, so they
may be present in
others, too.
Also, the re¬
searchers found that
antibiotics which in¬
hibited the mycoplas¬
ma prevented HIV
from killing cells in
the laboratory, al¬
though the drugs did
not afTect HIV directly. Dr. Montag¬
nier speculated that HIV might be¬
come more destructive later in the
disease than early after infection, be¬
cause of later mycoplasma Infection.
An abstract by Dr. Montagnier and
others reported that doxycycline pro¬
tected cells against destruction by
HIV, even though the virus continued
to multiply within the already-infect¬
ed cells. HIV cultures treated with
tetracycline lost their ability to kill
cells even after the tetracycline was
removed, suggesting that a tetracy¬
cline-susceptible con¬
taminant in the culture
(probably a mycoplas¬
ma) enabled the HIV
to kiH the cells.
Dr. Montagnier has
given high priority to
further investigation of
the possible role of
mycoplasma in AIDS,
and has assigned 1$
people, half of his unit,
to work on it
Tha CRI Study
The treatment now
being planned by the
Community Research
Initiative will randomize 190 patients
with an ARC diagnosis to one of
three daily doses of doxycycline: 50,
100, or 200 mg twice a day. Re¬
searchers will monitor patients' clini¬
cal status and do the usual blood
work; in addition, a special laborato¬
ry will test blood samples for my¬
coplasma, at baseline and at three-
month intervals. Because clinical
evaluations can be subjective, the
mycoplasma test results will be
AIDS last month in San Francisco, Dr.
At a special meeting organized at the Sixth International
Conference on AIDS in San Francisco, Dr. Montagnier
reported laboratory studies supporting a hypothesis that
mycoplasma might be a major cofactor in the develop¬
ment of AIDS— not just an opportunistic infection.
The CRI study will test
Dr. Montagniers hypothesis.
42 0UTYWEEK August 29.1990
blinded; ■ Data Safety Monitoring
Board will examine the unbllnded
data after six months, in order to halt
the study if the results are dramatic
enough to justify that step.
The CRI has raised about half of
the $500,000 required for this study;
it wants to have at least two-thirds
of the funding before beginning, to
assure that the trial can be complet¬
ed. Doxycycllne is a generic drug, as
its patent has expired; therefore',
pharmaceutical companies have no
incentive to fund research. Federal
agencies are not yet ready to con¬
duct a treatment trial for mycoplas¬
ma, although they may do a preva¬
lence study by analyzing blood and
tissue samples.
This CRI study is important for
several reasons:
•Even before mycoplasma became
an issue, some physicians have pre¬
scribed doxycydine empirically for
people with HIV who had unknown
illnesses. The rationale is that may
people with AIDS have opportunis¬
tic infections which have not been
diagnosed (as has been shown by
autopsy studies), doxycydine is fair¬
ly safe and is effective against many
disease-causing organisms, so it
could be worth trying when at¬
tempts to diagnose a problem have
failed. The doxycydine trial will
provide the best available data to
guide empirical use of the antibiotic
by persons with HIV—whether or
not mycoplasma is important.
•The study will test Dr. Montag-
nicr's hypothesis that mycoplasma
infection may be a major cofactor in
AIDS. It will show whether the
available mycoplasma blood test is
helpful in guiding the use of doxy¬
cydine, and whether testing for my¬
coplasma has prognostic value.
•Doxycydine is readily available,
very well known in human use and
inexpensive. Therefore, if the study
does find a positive result, it could
have rapid impact on AIDS treat¬
ment in the United States and else¬
where
If you can help in the fund-raising
or otherwise in the development of this
study, call Bernard Bihari, M.D., Execu¬
tive Director. Community Research Ini¬
tiative, (212) 481-1050.
Reprinted from AIDS Treatment
News, No. 108, Aug. 3
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Seven weeks ego, 300 people crewded Into
the Community Center to form a group that
would dofond the lesbian and gay com¬
munity. Now, a trained corps of gay men
and lesbians Is patrolling Manhattan's
streets. As anti-gay violence continues te
soar out of control, the Pink Panthers are
determined to take back the night.
by Chuck Cohon
I n their trilingual black T-shirts printed with cutesy paw
prints imposed on the obligatory pink triangles, members
of the Pink Panther Patrol look more like a lesbian and
gay softball team than front-line troops in the war against
queer-boshing.
But troops they are. And though they're unarmed
and committed to nonviolence, the motley pride at les¬
bians and gay men who have formed the community’s new
citizen's foot patrol intend to make the Village, and ultimate¬
ly the entire dry, tough terrain for hashers.
They plan to do it the hard way—by rooming the streets
In patrols of six or eight, equipped with walkie-talkies,
44 OUTTWEEK August 29,1990
jm / cameras, martial-ans training and a determina-
|don to intercede in assaults and possibly detain
j W bashers until police arrive. It is, they concede, a
1 potentially dangerous undertaking. But they are
outraged by the dry's mostly indifferent response
to this summer's explosive increase in gay-basb-
mg and are burning to send notice to the bashers
of the world that the party is over.
§ Explains Steve Machon, 41, a veteran activist
I and a major player in the Panthers, "The basic
message is this: We’re nonviolent, but if you bash
our community, we're going to bash back. Gays
and lesbians don't take it anymore.’
With bashings up 82 percent in the first seven
months of 1990—316 cases vs. 174 for the same period last
year, according to the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-
Violence Project—the queer world is throwing off its passivi¬
ty and politeness. The fury ticked up a notch in June, when
Queer Nation's massive anti-violence march drew volleys of
beer bottles, heckling and assaults from bystanders—and
accusations from police that marchers incited the attacks
But the Pink Panthers are more than just a matter-of-fact
outgrowth of frustration over crime and the public’s apathy.
They r e p resent a raising of the stakes for lesbian and gay
activism. By putting their own safety on the line, members
of the Pink Panther Patrol make themselves a walking politi¬
cal statement for empowerment and pride as well as—the
word recurs frequently in their discussions—a target. ’We're
being bashed by the government, we’re being boshed on
the street, we're being bashed all over the place,' says Gerri
Wells, 35, a longtime activist and Panther member. ’So when
a guy in the patrol said to me, 'I feel like a target,' my
response was, ‘I'm a lesbian, and every time I walk the
street I’m a target.' It's kind of scary what we're doing, but
we don't know any other way right now.*
T he decision to take to the streets gives truth to Victor
Hugo’s famous declaration: 'No army can withstand the
stren#h of an idea whose time has come.* The Panthers
arose after years of murmuring among gays and lesbians
about the need for direct action to stop die violence. *lt was
one of those things where every party or gathering you would
go to, someone would bring it up,* recalls Wrils There was a
lot of saying, W:Ve got to do something about it,' and a lot of
frustration and anger, but no one knew what to da*
At the Lesbian and Gay Pride March In late June, some
members of Queer Nation's contingent held another one of
these discussions as they marched and chanted down Fifth
Avenue, informally debating the possibility of organizing a
patrol. Then, at the group's July 5 meeting, a call was nude
for the formation of a working group to fight bashing. A
similar call went out on the floor of ACT UP the following
week, and In mid-July, a contingent of activists met with city
officials, including Marjorie J. Hill, the mayor’s liaison to the
lesbian and gay community, and Vanessa Ferro, the police
department's gay and lesbian liaison, to discuss plans.
The early, energetic meetings were tinged with ap¬
prehension and occasional contentiousness. The mood at
the time was really kind of tentative,* recalls Pat Gulbls,
21, a second-year Harvard Law student. There were only
about a dozen people, so there was a lot of concern that
there wasn't enough interest. And we also realized that it
August 29,1990 OUTTMEK 45
Photo T.Llitt
could be fairly danger©os for volunteers patrolling, that we
could become moving targets.* As meeting attendance
mushroomed to 150 people, worries about a lack of interest
dissipated, and participants took the first steps toward
thrashing out philosophical differences. The group voted to
establish independence from Queer Nation and ACT UP,
feeling that the risks they were taking necessitated the lati¬
tude that a separate and. distinct identity would permit.
Some members wanted the group to be trained by the po¬
lice and to register either as an auxiliary police unit or as
an official community patrol. But most people opposed
those ideas. 'We figured we had enough talent in our com¬
munity to train ourselves,* says Wells. “And some people
quite frankly didn’t have a lot of faith in the police depart¬
ment. They'd been illegally strip-searched, or they'd been
subjected to excessive force or homophobic comments at
demonstrations.* When the group discussed how militant
they would be on the streets, moderation prevailed. “There
were some people who wanted to be very aggressive,* says
Gulbis. *But most people agreed that this would be an or¬
ganization dedicated to deterrence.*
The final compromise was reflected in the name that they
chose for their group. Nominations like ‘Lavender Berets,*
•Queer Panthers* and "Gays on Patrol* sunk like stone when
someone suggested the gender-neutral 'Pink Panther Patrol.*
The name was stylish and witty, and its obvious allusion to
militant groups like the Black Panthers of the ’60s and 70s
provided a comfortable balance. “We re drawing from a tradi¬
tion of communities organizing in self-defense,’ explains Ming
Ma, the 22-year-old artist who designed the group’s patrol T-
shirts, ‘and the name definitely makes a reference to that.’
W ith the organization named, the real planning
was undertaken. The group sought self-defense
training from Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts,
invited a physician to teach them first aid and
agreed to seek lecturers on racism. *We want to avoid the
kinds of problems that have been seen at some Queer Nation
marches, where marchers have rendered racial epithets at
people taunting the march,’ explains Gulbis.
The group also invited activist attorney Lori Cohen to lec¬
ture them on the legal issues confronting street patrols. Her
message was heartening but cautionary. The law provides
that a citizen can make an arrest if he or she sees a crime
committed in his or her p re s ence,* she said. ’But name-calling
is not against the law. Someone can call you a ‘fag’ on the
street, and it’s perfectly within their rights.’ Cohen also
advised the patrol that members could legally use force to
defend themselves or someone else or to detain a criminal
until police arrived. But she warned that the force used by the
bashed must be equal to the force being used by the basher.
Members met with police officers stationed in the West
Village to discuss their intentions and to raise consciousness *1
was surprised by the positive response,’ says Wells, one of the
Panthers who talked with the cops. ’Maybe 70 percent of the
officers were open-minded.’ One officer said. Why do you have
to flaunt your stuff? You’re sort of asking for trouble.' That men¬
tality really pisses me off—does a woman with big tits deserve
to be raped? dearly, whatever sensitivity training they’re getting
isn’t working- But most of the officers were positive.’
Group members also sol idled community support. David
Levine, owner of the Two Potato bar at the comer of Christopher
and Greenwich streets, donated the vacant storefront next to his
46 OUPTWEEK August 29.1990
bar for use as a headquarters until the space can be rented. The
Village Nursing Home at 12th and Hudson streets offered a room
where patrollers could take coffee breaks. Another neighborhood
business, the Spy Shop, donated eight walkietaDaes.
But the toughest challenge came when the patrollers hit the
s mounting each week, the group discussed
how soon to begin patrolling. "We wondered, Xto we want to get
the patrols out on the streets now. because it's the height of the
bashing season, or do wc want to wait until we re better trained?"
recalls Gulbts. They decided to plunge in with a “practice’ patrol
on August 4. After a kickoff march from Sheridan Square to the
Christopher Street pier, the Panthers
broke off into six patrols of 12 people
each. Group members were relieved
Panther Stnva
patrol Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, when the majority
of attacks occur. But, Montana adds: "We need people to give
their time so patrols can be stretched to other nights. We're
only asking for four hours per week, and if you're a gay per¬
son, you should be doing this because it’s only right "
Bringing more women into the group is a special concern, in
large part because lesbians, even more so than gay men. are often
perceived as being powerless. ’I was a little disturbed at the >me
16 anti-violence march to see a few men wearing T-shirts that
said, lesbian Protector,” says Gulbts. 1 think wc really need to
change that image to one of women wearing those T-shirts."
Machon explains: “We re nonviolent, but
chat an hour and a half on the streets
didn't expose the patrols to much trou¬
ble. One patrol encountered a dis¬
turbed man wielding a stick and
yelling anti-gay epithets in Sheridan
Square Park. They called the police,
who responded quickly and calmed
the man down.
The real-life experiences on the
II you bash our community, we're going to bash back.
Gays and lesbians lost don't take It anymore.''
group still has many issues to work
out, including exactly how much risk
they will expose themselves to in
facing bashers. "I don't know how
well deal with seven teenage boys
who are intent on causing pain,"
says Phil Montana, 27. *1 don't have
any problem with running away—os
long as I can get the person who's
being beaten up away. 1 don't have
any need to be some sort of John
Wayne. But we want to make it not
easy for the beatings to happen."
I f the experts are right, that may be
the group's greatest effect "People
have to realize that most bashers
aren't hardened criminals," says
Man Foreman, executive director of the
Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project
They're mostly middle-class kids who
have a lot to lose. They're cowards,
they have an inability to fight fair, and
they never attack unless they grossly
outnumber the victims because they're
looking to hurt people at no risk to
themselves. If thugs understand that there's an organized commu¬
nity, and that their attacks wont be risk-free, that's the deterrence.'
Gulbis agrees. "We feel pretty strongly that most of the
people who are out there are cowards," she explains, "and
that If they're confronted with an entire patrol, or several
patrols, saying in a very dear way. Too have to stop this.'
then they'll be very likely to leave the area very quickly.’
And the group hopes that increasing numbers and more
training will strengthen their position on the streets. Patrol
members will be expected to attend the group’s weekly meet¬
ings, where the seminars will take place, and to commit to reg¬
ular attendance for duty. Bor now, the Panthers are striving to
t
Panthers hope that the sense of pride and strength they fed
on the streets will spread to echos, yielding more recruits. 1 ftk
real proud on patrol,' says Carol Anastasio, 28, who works by day
as director of public relations for the Department of Parks and
Recreation. ’But the entire week before the patrol, I was really
sad and depressed that there's such a need for this type of patrol.
I felt that I must be a nut for going out there—I don't even Uve In
the Village. But that was balanced out by the thought that I would
finally have a chance to do something about the violence. I used
to s* home and get so upset about bashing that I'd war(to cry.
This was really empowering*
Sh PANTHERS on s*f* M
August 29.1990 OUTVWEEK 47
PRIME-TIME
K^TUMMU
Comedian Frank Maya gets his first national TV
gig and brings gay laughs to middle America
by Jay Blotcher
F ^rank Maya e streamlining.
The schtick—his early days as a downtown perfor-
_mance artist monologuist-fock musician—is histo-
™ry. Gone arc the gold ears, the blond streaks in the
brunet hair. Tempered arc the angry, brilliant, strcam-
of-consoousness prose poems he called ‘rants."
But Maya offers a new dimension: He has outed
himself. And in a profession that survives on audience
approval. Maya is taking some big chances. Gay only for
those who could perceive the subtleties before, the
Babylon, LX, prodigal son now incorporates "Confession
Time" into the evening show. His fust national gig comes
on the new, all-comedy HA! Network, Sunday, August 26
(11 pm EST and 8 pm PSD.
For the 35-year-oid West Villager, coming out pro¬
fessionally is a tentative process. Maya's material is
quirky and arch, incorporating, for instance, letters from
Bette Davis, Hitchcock, Disney and Elvis that depict
heaven as one bitchy cocktail party. But he displays a
pained vulnerability when he drops the other pump.
Perhaps with practice, hell conjure up pride, not timidi¬
ty, when he comes out to subsequent audiences.
Edgy and sexy as a young Martin Sheen, with a gen¬
erous dollop of New York neurotic, Maya aims straight
for stardom—with no apologies. And like confrere Jaffe
Cohen (of Funny Gay Males), he plans to do it with his
gay identity intact. Sipping iced tea in the courtyard of a
West Village cafe, he explains why a bid for network TV
won't mean pulling a Barry Manilow-type hetero hoax
on the public
Jay Blotcher: You use one segment. The Fury," as
a humorous springboard to a very serious subject: gay¬
bashing. Was this a firsthand experience?
Frank Maya: I’ve never been physically
attacked. Usually it's a car in the West Village that
drives by, and someone yells, "Faggot." I always yell
back. It's an instant reaction. Last Saturday, I was on
St. Marks at Second Avenue, hugging my lover, Nell,
goodbye. This young Hispanic couple, including a
pregnant 18-year-old girl, yelled, "Fucking homos." I
said, ‘Fuck off.’ The other guy ran ahead and got
two other guys who started running toward us. Neil
ran into a store for help, and I ran into traffic. I
called the police, and we got into a squad car, and
we spotted them. There was one cop from the bias
unit. It was good; 1 felt [the harassers] got somewhat
48 OUTTWEEK AbgOSt 29.1990
‘The first time
I got specific
about making
out with my
boyfriend, I
thought the
audience was
going to die.”
of a lesson, but not enough.
JB: How often have you performed that particular
piece?
FM: I started last September. That's also when I decided
to be really out, not ambiguously out There’s always been
lots of hints in my material. One was the piece, "The First
Time You Go Home With Somebody.* I've done that for
four years. I've always mentioned the other person as "he,"
but nobody ever heard that. They think I changed that Only
one time did I change that to ‘they,* at the prodding of a
former manager who thought I should be ‘more straight.’
He's gay.
In my original monologue, I did a whole thing about
Liberace dying of AIDS and denying it. Straight performers
would not be doing that. People could infer I was gay. I
always found that many people didn't want to believe it. I
told one writer who's been coming to my show forever, and
he didn’t know. 1 thought, God, tent it obvious?
JB: What’s the
story of this fevered
epiphany when you
decided to declare
“People who
should be out are
yourself out onstage?
FM: My manager
had the attitude: First
make it, then do
whatever you want.
And I thought. That's
tremendously
intimidated.”
the way you do it. But last fall, I was in bed with the flu,
watching HBO. I saw comics talking about every part of
their lives and not censoring anything. My defenses were
down, and I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote
the entire The Fury* segment. Friends told me to do It,
since other gay performers are in the closet. My manager
was shaken, but he was excited.
When I was doing the HA! special, an executive from
another cable station—who's gay—told me not to do the
gay materia]. But I couldn't do that Whenever I have busi¬
ness meetings with executives, I always manage to tell them
I'm gay. On the show, in rehearsal, I had all these macho
union guys fussing over me and wiring me up, and I
thought. They don't know I'm gay. In the course of the tap¬
ing, they found out—so then I didn't have to listen to any
fag jokes. All that bullshit got pushed aside.
JB: Do you worry that the respect only lasts while
you're around 5
FM: I want respect right now. I cant moke them not
say things behind my bock, but I dont want to sit silently
and listen to someone making fag jokes. And I remember
having to do that while I was in the closet. I always bristled
and would make universal comments [about tolerance], the
same way I would if I heard the word 'nigger.* I talk about
the parallel in my show.
JB: Where does comedy about tolerance of lesbians and
gay men stop short of being preachy?
FM: I wouldn't want to be Ipreachyi But what my show
is about—a little bit—is telling people what to do. During
my shows as a ranter, I did a piece called “Get Out of the
House,* which was a metaphor for getting out of any
fucked-up situation. People told me that I sounded like
Howard Beall from Network I'm idling people what to do
and tdling myself what to do.
I want to put gay characters in front of people. As a
screenwriter, I want to use gay characters. If I were writing
an Afterscbool Special it would be preachy. I'd rather pre¬
sume that the audience will accept them. The way my act te
now, I go into a real gay section, talking about being a gay
performer, tdling my parents I'm gay, and then I walk away
from it and go on with my show. I’m just tdling a straight
audience, "You're watching a gay performer.*
JB: What arc the reactions you get from the audience?
FM: When I did my act in the Comedy dub, I made a
mistake. I didn't do the full routine, and the routine te tai¬
lored to bring you in. I was doing a 15-minute set, and the
second thing I said—after hdlo—was, Tm gay.* I remember
this one couple said: ‘It's fine if you're gay. You don't have
to tell us.* And I said: "No, I do have to tell you, 'cause you
wouldn't know. A lot of people don't know, and I want to
tell them.’
I find people are more tolerant when you say you're
gay. But the first time I got specific about making out with
my boyfriend—part of a routine—! thought the audience
was going to die. This woman came up to me and congratu¬
lated me but added, "It * so upsetting to hear about two men
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August 29.1990 OUTTWEEK 53
I t was that kind of a night. On my
way home I stopped by the
revolving cocktail lounge at the
Marriott Marquis Hotel and gave
die pianist $20 to play ‘Die Ballade
von der HOilenlili* from Happy End,
whereupon he launched into an espe¬
cially aggressive interpretation of *1
Promise You a Happy Ending* from
Mack and Mabel. The bartender
(whose name I later learned was
Hector) did seem glad to sec me.
Looking up from his Merry Mixer
cocktail book, he inquired whether 1
knew what ingredients went into a
Clover Club. I assured him that I dkl
and ordered a Sazerac—Pernod
seemed to fit the mood of the night.
What, you may well ask (as did
Hector), put me in such a dispirited
frame of mind? I’ll tell you.
The evening began like any
other ‘Dining Out!,* which is to say,
not on time. I had finally confirmed
dinner plans with my dear friends
Alvin and Earl, two smart young
people whose names and faces seem
to be popping up in boldface in just
about every publication you pick up
these days, due to their meteoric ele¬
vation to the positions of definitive
spokespeople for the young, militant
queer set (a status, I humbly add. that
has been no doubt enhanced in this
very space). Aside from the fact that
I've not gone out with them in quite
some time and do so miss their scin¬
tillating, albeit jejune, company, I fig¬
ured that this might also afford an
excellent opportunity to have my pic¬
ture taken for the popular press.
(Why not? *We all use each other,*
wrote out, gay playwright Tennessee
Williams in one of his more trenchant
musings on the Gemeinscbafi, ‘and
that’s what we think of as love.* And
though perhaps I shouldn’t be telling
you this, Alvin has been secretly in
love with me for years—just don’t let
Earl hear about that.)
So there 1 was, trying to square
things away at the office to go meet
Alvin and Earl at the Cabeza de Lobo
restaurant, where the floor show, I’ll
grant you, is just a bit extreme (but
one taste of the mock-sea turtle soup
is an experience similar to beholding
the face of God—nonbelievers,
among whom I include myself, may
substitute their own analogy here).
Just as I dotted the last V crossed
the last 1* and cedillaed the last V
in my ‘Dining Out!* analysis of this
current trend toward serving frozen
daiquiris in glasses with salted rims
(hint: don t ), the Out Week personnel
liaison, Edelweiss—this new mock-
Edelweiss—appeared in my door¬
way. 1 told her that I was in a hurry
to leave, but she shut the door
behind her and said she would only
take a few minutes of my under¬
standably valuable time, as she her¬
self was en route to a rendezvous at
the top of the Empire Sate Building.
*lt’s the closest thing we have to
heaven,* she commented wistfully
and then handed me a sheet of
paper, which the said was her
‘aunt’s* entry in my Annual Summer
Pudge Competition. I explained
that OutWeek employees and
their relatives are Ineligible to
compete (for the rest of you, that
deadline is August 280, but I don’t
believe that she heard me correctly.
She merely said that she knew that
I would do the right thing, and
then she disappeared into the
lengthening shadows.
1 was, as it turned out, five min¬
utes late getting to the Cabeza de
Lobo. The maitre d\ Sebastian,
handed me a typewritten note from
Alvin and Earl that read, ‘Couldn’t
wait any longer. Have tickets to The
Fantastlcks. Catch you next time.
Love and kisses, A & E.* The floor
show was just about to begin, but I
couldn’t bear the thought of watching
it while trying to eat, let alone with¬
out somebody I loved beside me, so I
went on to the Marriott Marquis.
Disturbed as I am by Edelweiss - be¬
havior, I suppose that I should at least
take heart in the fact that a new gen¬
eration is discovering the magical
simplicity of Tbe FantasticksT
54 OUTTWEEK August 29,1990
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by Michelangelo Signori k*
H ere's one for the Mtladjusted
Queer Hall of Fame. In an Inter¬
view with the West Side Spirit,
Whoopi Goldberg responds to a
question about her near-love scene with
Demi Moore in Gbost *1 was actually con¬
cerned that I wouldbe smooching wkh Demi
Moore. I have just managed to live down the
lesbianism of The Color Purple.'
Oh. dear. dear. dear. Whoopi. I once
loved you. Really, I did. And that's why k
hurts me so much...well...to do this. But 1
have to..xx else I couldn't poasfciy live with
mysdf ..you...you...
...YOU, SELF-LOATHING FUCKHEAD!
There. It's done.
New York's publisher and editor in chief,
Ed Koaner called. As you may r emember, last
week I lashed out at him regarding an item
about ACT UP and Judge Marcy Kahan.
CNew York had reported that an angry ACT
UP chimed that Kahan allegedly wouldn't
preside over the case of the St. Patrick's
Cathedral protestors because she is a lesbian
and because she disagrees with ACT UP'S
tactics.) I was royally pissed off because New
York did not print Kahan's name, simply
referring to her several times as *the fudge *
Koaner called to ask that in the future I con¬
tact him first before rushing foil speed ahead
into one of my spleen-venting diatribes (a
reasonable request. I suppose). Koaner said
that when he left the office that week, the
tern did indeed identify Kahan by name, but
that later—after he was unable to be
reached—the magazine's lawyers took It out
He went on to tell me that if he were avail¬
able, he would have overridden the lawyers
and had them keep the name in.
OK. Fine.
A phone message also landed on my
desk from Details columnist Stephen Saban.
As you may remember, two weeks ago I lam¬
basted that magazine for its faux hetero,
homo-leas content, so I was curious to hear
what he had to say. But when I called Saban
back, it turned out that he hadn't really
phoned at all; onoe again I was the victim of
some prankster trying to put me in a precari¬
ous position. (Will you people please stop
doing thatO Saban thanked me for returning
the call anyway.
But while on the topic of Details. It
should be pointed out—to the editors
there—that we wil only continue to step up
the criticism of the mind-numbing rag until
we see queers represented in its pages
(especially since it's a magazine obviously
targeted to fashion-crazed fags and is also a
place where so many of the editors in charge
are gay men). Because there's one thing
weVe learned here; The more we bash peo¬
ple over the head with vtvid vitriol, the more
their Ibcral guih and/or realizations of self-
hatred and/or fears of protests has them flip¬
ping out totally anchor scrambling to return
your calls and/or GETTING WITH THE
PROGRAM AND DOING THE RIGHT
THING. You dig, boys)
Of course there are a few
who refuse to buckle under
and who continue in their
maniacal ways: Liz Smith's
character, for example, has
been put through a moral
Cuisinart in this column, but
she still unflinchingly forges
ahead with the madness she
calls joumaltam, demonstrating
that frightening rigidity so com¬
mon among Bible-thumpers
and demented phJUstines. Even
where Liz used to get aft
easy, documents her lingering
hinxy at least four times In the
new issue, referring to Liz's
sudden love affair with Vlad
the Impalcr. (In case you missed k, Liz had
written a column bade in May defending her
sucking up to supreme homophobe Roger
Aies by saying that she'd sfc down wth any¬
one who has different views from herself,
even Vbd the Impaler. In that same column,
Hkier, loo, got a boldface mention.)
But while Liz steadfastly turns away
valid and heakhy criticism. Vantty Fairs edi¬
tor In chief Tina Brown, does seem to grudg¬
ingly force k down her throat, grimacing like
a chid taking her medkfne. After months of
burying this woman with all sorts of
delectable defamation, she began to respond
Imi month, pubWtkig a piece by Leslie Ben¬
netts that rightfully ripped Cardinal O'Connor
to shreds. And In the current Vanity Fair a a
piece on Jesse Helms, which, though it
wimps out for the most part and gives him
much, too much credfoilky, does depict him
as the reactionary, right-wing freak that he is.
And elsewhere in the magazine there are
actually images of open queers (afoek, they
keep using the word *homosentaL* Earth to
Tina: Even 7b# New York Times now uses
gay—sometimes, anyway. Cut the clinical
buHshk. We are not suffering from some sort
of psychological disorder, nor are we
invaders from some foreign planet). But Tina
wfll have to go a lot further if she wants the
heat oft. (And. quke honestly, girlfriends, a
more fun and sleazy side of me doesn't want
her to change all that much molly soon—you
see, the din I'm getting on her these days is
going to make for some fabulous future
oolumruO 1 want to see attacks on bigots and
homophobes in Vanity Fair wkh the same
frequency, zeal and shamelessness with
which Brown sucks up to power-mongers.
This may be difficuk for cur lade Tina Many
of the power-mongers are the homophobes.
Such is the dreary dilemma that a kiss-ass
finds herself in. What, oh
what, is a glamorous, Chanel-
laden edarix to do?
Well, perhaps she should
look to Interview editor in
chief Ingrid Sischy—as
should every other edkor in
chief in town. The new Inter-
view continues to be exciting
and transcends all categories
of sexuality. Of course—I
admit It—I’m immensely
biased because Sischy is an
open lesbian. But k cant be
distuned that that fact has an
enormous effect not only on
the content of the magazine
in terms of queer stuff, but
on the magazine's overall It¬
erated look and fed
And the journalism is honest and open
to what would never make into most other
publications. In the September Interview, gay
novelist, poet and art critic Dennis Cooper
interviews Hollywood heartthrob Keanu
Reeves, asking one of the many questions
which he says a Toronto gay and lesbian
anarchist group, called the New Lavender
Panthers, asked hkn to put forth:
DC Are you gay or wbal/ Come on,
make it official
KR No /Long pause/ But ya never know.
I think such a question should be asked
in every Interview.
I also think that out dykes should be
running the country. ▼
Out
dykes
should be
running
this
country
August 29.1990 OUTTWEEK 56
With Liz and Sydney
(NOTE: Since Sydney has not returned
from Atlanta, Liz refuses to write the col¬
umn by herself. Until Sydney's return next
week, two other women volunteered to
write ‘Out on the Town* for this issue.)
Fern: When my agent called me and
said that ‘temper tantrum* of a magazine
was begging for a fill-in columnist, I swore
to myself that I wouldn't give them the lime
of day. This was especially true since he
had wolcen me up at the ungodly hour of 2
pm. But then he reminded me of a few
things—how a person who calls herself i
writer usually manages to pick up a pen at
least once a year and how much less
chintzy it would seem to actually have a
reason for drink tickets, free dinners and
boldface. Spurred on by the prospect of
quelling rumors of my now notorious writ¬
er's blockade. 1 accepted.
I was told that 1 could choose any
other woman to write this with me. 1 am
not a collaborator by nature; I barely find
myself capable of civility to those of
import, like ray agent. But that woman with
the film kept popping into'my head; at
least her double-breasted suit did. I
called her, and after assurances that the
only outing of ourselves would be self-
inflicted, she agreed.
Handy Fern called me—we are going
to dinner at Punach with her friends Linda
Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and
Christie Turlington I love models—they
are so insightful After dinner we pile into
the girts’ Ihno and head for the piers, a
happening place if there ever was one! As
we exited onto the pier, Fcm said sadly, *1
used to cover this wsterfront....* Naomi
talked to some friends—boys I'd seen
before at a party at my friend Madonna's
apartment. They were all dancing on a
table with Madonna and her new
boyfriend. One of the boys plays some
music—I yelled, "It doesn't matter If you're
black or white, a boy or a girl, c'mon
Vogue * Christie yelled, *Wc don) Vogue—
we an Vogue * Yeah, well, fuck you Christie.
Fern. It wasnt 12 West, but k had a
certain ambience that you Just can) create
58 OJTTWEEK August 29,1990
in your living room. We went » Quidd and
found out that it was gay night. We had
already dropped off the models at La Palace
de Beau*, and we debased even being seen
there, while a very tall doorwoman kept
watching us, asking. ‘Haven't I seen you
before?* We decided our beat bet was to try
and pass for Lb and Sydney, whoever they are,
but k didn't exactly work. They wouldn't
believe that I was Uz. Mandy got in fine,
and after convincing them that I was taking
over the column, I followed.
Since I do believe that 1 have become
incapacitated In the fun depart m ent since
those heady days when I used to write, I
was unprepared for what I saw: subculture
of what I was told were "hot, sweaty boys*
cavorting in jeans and T-ahirta, sometimes
just shorts, jockeys or cutoffs. I began
sweating through my Brooks Brothers and
chain-smoking, while Mandy found hersdf
surrounded by a group of lesbians. She
began to sing *IFs My Life,' and the lounge
fairly dcared out. The proprietor, arriving
too late, tried to put a spotlight on her. She
ducked next to the deejay, who was
sucoeding in raising the nostalgia quotient
on 70s music that deserved to stay there
with T-shirts reading Tm With Stupid * She
asked him where he shopped for frocks,
and they swapped fashion tips, while this
young man hovered near me. 1 stared at
him; he stared back. I asked If I could help
him. He said that we had met at a party a
few weeks bade. I said that I have attended
many parties in the past few weeks. He
said that this was not a badge at honor. I
began to reply tersely, and he mentioned a
young woman he had been in attendance
with at said party. I remembered her. He
asked what I had done with her. He hadn't
seen her for week*. I told him that I was
not a repository for wayward bisexual
women and that he might try any number
of places, and I quickly grasped Mindy's
hand, hurrying out the door as she said:
They all cut their hair after I did! Can you
bebeve Julia Roberts was afraid her hair got
mare press than she dkfr
Why yes, I can
Mandy: Wc went up to Girl Bar—we
were told this was something that Uz and
Sydney would do. I always find these *gfcT
places so depressing. I mean, these people
are so .ou/ there. But they all love me so,
and the girts always stop me to tdl me this.
I brought my friend Isaac along, and he
met this girl by the bar. He dragged me
over to meet her, and the four of us (Isaac
brought a fishing buddy along) stood
around talking. I told them about the time
when I was at a party at my friend Barbra
Streisand’s house and the heel fell off my
Manolo Blahnlk shoe. Well, thank God.
my friend Stevie Nicks had a spare pair of
platform boots In her car. This was last year
when I was really into Rachel London
dresses and Stevie's boots looked so out*
with this dress, but I just couldn't turn
down her offer. God, she is so good to me.
1 figure that the outfit looks so bad that I
just have to work it. My friend Warren
Beatty walks up to me and tdls me that I
look like a hooker. Well, thank you, mistert
So I slapped him. Next thing you know, the
story is in the Enquirer that I best up W)r-
ren because he stole Madonna from me.
Ian) that just a ceaspool of degradation?
Fern | went solo to the dub which
refers to s specific pan of the female geni¬
talia. Mandy was off at some dinner with
an entourage of former hairdressing friends.
As I approached the door, I was asked If I
knew that this ws* • ‘queer night* I said l
wouldn't exactly describe It as queer—
muggy perhaps. They said that k was a gay
night. I did know that, yea, and I had to
cover this for • magazine. 1 was ushered
into a dark room, and given free rein at the
bar. It was damp, smoky and loud, and
bare-breasted women danced around me.
This must be lesbian liberation- I walked
downstairs and found a lounge filled with
women watching various sex acts with a
dance-music soundtrack. I felt conspicu¬
ous..alien. actually. I took off my jacket
and shirt, leaving a white T-shirt and my
jeans. This worked for me, as Mandy might
have said. I felt much less presentable but
regretted having ever said that no one was
having fun anymore. I walked down a hall
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Film
Brando Does Brando
The Freshman. Written and directed by Andrew j
Bergman. Produced by Tri-Star.
by Bruce C Steele
E verything Is delightfully askew in Andrew
Bergman's Tbe Freshman For once, that tired
die hi about the naif stripped of all his possessions
within minutes of arriving in New York Gty devel¬
ops into a comic worldview—the movie is all
about how beneath every layer of absurdity lurks an even
greater absurdity. When NYU film student Clark Kellogg
(Matthew Broderick) happens upon the hoodlum who
robbed him, the thief (Bruno Kirby) is in the middle of
doing hb laundry, and dark comes away with a Job inter¬
view instead of hb stolen money.
Clark's soon-to-be employer turns out to be Don
Carmine Sabatini, a classic Godfather type—in fact, tbe das-
rcconstructs the wold from w* and wfie. banishes death and
forbids any true evil. One of the fatal flaws of Bill Murray's
Quick Change b that the New York City that the film’s heroes
cant escape b often genuinely menacing, and the comedy
gets bogged down in hints of premarital angst and socioeco¬
nomic inequity Wanda and Tbe Freshman have no down¬
side and no social conscience. Everything turns out peachy,
not because test audiences demand resolution at all costs, but
because the movie's whole atmosphere b a bit fruity.
The fruitiness in Tbe Freshman goes so far as to indude
Maximilian Schell as a rather mad chef and BO. Wxig as hb
prottgt, a fey zoologist who may or may not double as
Schell's lover. Are they gay? Perhaps, b Bergman dabbling in
fag humor by having Wang giggle girlishly or Schdl staie
dviousty at dark and hb paP Not at all. Bergman toys much
mote vigorously with heterosexual co nv ention by tfveate
dark with marriage to Don Carmine’s beautiful only daughter
(Pendope Arm Miller). Wong’s and Schell’s queemess and
Miller's marry-me put-on are simply designed to confuse dark
into unwitting complicity. In the classic
screwball style, everyone but our hero b
unfathomably odd, and sexuality b fust
: ambiguous threat that keeps him
Although the plot b resolved only
when its last twists are unraveled, the
sole character in perfect balance b the
Godfather. Carmine—os b metaphorically
demonstrated by hb ice-skating. Yes, the
entire bulk of Brando glides about on
skates—(hat alone b worth the price of
admission (So b the Bert Parks cameo in
il sequence, singing mariachi and
lO
A MOMENT OF PANIC
Steve Bushek (Frank Whetey) and Clerk Kellogg (Matthew Broderick)
sic, since Bergman managed to snare Marlon Brando for the
part, dark, the Cary Grant role in this screwball concoction,
b too polite to ever refect anyone flat out, so he takes the
job and soon finds himself chasing a giant lizard through a
shopping mall and outmaneuvering dippy government
agents m a car chase through lower Manhattan,
The Freshman has a lot in common with A Ptsb Coded
Wanda i starting with a plot that pivots an a cold-blooded crea¬
ture and one zealous animal-rights activist More importantly,
the two films have that rare comic dnpoabon that biithdy dis¬
misses reality in favor of a simpler, sillier outlook, one that
Without Brando, the movie would be
all gags and surfaces. But the big guy's
self-parody b so charming that the whole
picture resonates with hb presence,
seems to have bundled aspects of all his
classic roles into one huge, mumbling,
mischievous granddad. Carmine is
Every Brando, the W3d One, who in hb old age has finally
learned to manipulate hb own overblown image without
cracking the surface. Brando b funny both because he's
Brando doing Brando (listen carefully for the allusion to On
tbe Waterfront in the final shot) and because Carmine, hb
role here, b an adorably sly and compassionate old man.
For all hb befit, Brando keeps things light. A truly
screwball worldview b difficult to sustain these days—the
world b too much with us for filmmakers to easily let go of
their social agenda, be it progressive or pro-family. 7 be
Fteshman is simply pro-comedy. ▼
58 OUTTWEEK August 29.1990
Cabaret
Legerely
porary pop music. Synthesizing these
disparate styles into a viable cabaret
RAX OR FICTION
Phoebe Lege re
Phoebe Legerc. The Duplex. 61
Christopher St. (212) 255-5438. Aug
15,22, 29 at 10 pm.
Cindy Benson. Eighty Eight's. 228 W.
[ 10th St (212) 924-0088 Thursdays at 8
pen. Through September.
byjonn Wasser
I n a cabaret performance, the place
to suit and end is with the voice-,
what should occur in between is a
simultaneous transformation of
both singer and audience. The pre¬
sent generation of female cabaret per¬
formers is the first group to grow up
listening to vintage show tunes as well
as the synthesized textures of contem-
persona is a lofty challenge which
these two performers meet with vary¬
ing degrees of success.
Downtown cult artist Phoebe
Legerc has inhabited a range of projects
from long-term engagements at
Michael’s Pub and One Fifth to starring
roles in MondoNeu' lor* and the Thxic
Avenger film series. A marvel of self¬
promotion, the classically trained
Legerc sings in a four-octave range that
sheds light on everyone from Edith Piaf
to Edith Bunker. Lcgcre's current
Duplex engagement demonstrates her
talents as singer, composer and musi¬
cian, but the final effect is one of a per¬
former reaching in various directions at
once for the elusive brass ring
Excessively theatrical in look
and In attitude, Legerc opens her
show with energized versions of
•Wilkommen" and ’Be a down." A
boisterously exuberant performer,
she struts across the stage midsoog
and accompanies herself on the
accordion (one of several instru¬
ments she plays in the show).
Unfortunately, the classic Gershwin
tunc "Su m mert im e' loses its bluesy fla¬
vor when touched by Legerc But the
evening comes alive during a lengthy
musical segment devoted to Piaf. with
*Je Nc Regrcttc Ricn* sung as a defiant
anthem. Throughout her one-hour act,
Legerc plays down her darker, intro¬
spective side, preferring to concentrate
on vocal and stage histrionics. A bit
more intimacy and a lot less posing
could help restore Legerc to the pop
mainstream—if that's her goal
For those of you who are irritated
by Phoebe Lcgcre's tendency toward
the overly dramatic, Cindy Benson's kid-
mate warmth will come as a welcome
relief. If your tastes veer toward cabaret
stalwarts Claiborne Cary and Margaret
Whiting, then Ridtn ' High, Ms. Benson's
new show, is the thing for you. A pfcc-
ieish performer, her quirky look and off¬
beat manner suggest the young Shirley
Maclaine. Her voice is all Broadway,
functional rather than exciting, but it
soars when necessary. Benson prefers
to sing quieter fare, however. Her read¬
ing of the McCartney-Lenncn classic If I
Fell" is exemplary, if only for the way
she highlights the lyric's heartfelt mean¬
ing Other songs, most of them original
ballads, touch upon the singer's search
for love.
But the evening is not all black
roses, white rhythm and blues. Benson
injects a healthy dose of comedy with a
funny takeoff on Vogueing and a witty
tribute to Nancy Sinatra replete with
white lipstick and a shoulder-length
blonde wig, although the segment devot¬
ed to mime distracts, rather than enhan¬
ces, and borders on the self-serving. ▼
August 29.1990 0UTWWEEK 59
Music
Signs of Intelligent Life
A monthly consumer guide to new and unusual music |
by NoeUe Hattraban
■ AS ■ tth the long, hex summer wmdrig to i too-
M m soon dose, this batch of recordings will both
■ # ll inflame your political aspn-
■V Wrn tions and inform your pas-
Wl sionate pursuits. Be sure to
track them down; it’s the only way to beat
the radio humdrum.
Hearts and Flowers.
Joan Amu trading (A&M).
With each of her many creative, original acts, Joan
Armatrading has cleared the way for the Tracy Chapmans of
the world. It’s ironic that amidst the tireless struggle to
maintain both her artistic independence and her major-label
record contract, Armatrading over the years has succumbed
Signs of Life.
Barbara Higbie (Windham Hill).
As illustrated by this quotation from
Vicki Noble which appears on the last
page of the liner notes—"We are having a
collective near-death experience, and the
blinding light of it is showing us how to
transform our lives’—Barbara Higbie's
musical and personal Journey on Signs of
Life is the embodiment of hope.
As folk music, with its reverence for
light touches and empty spaces, each note
is written with lyrical impact and phrasing
in mind. Singular, sometimes lonely, some¬
times satisfied, her highly personal tales
are crafted to cradle her yoke.
Twenty years of performing and
recording as a violinist and keyboardist at
the side of instrumental, folk and women's
musk legends such as Darol Anger, Mike
Marshall, Perron and Theresa Trull, she
helped pioneer the new hybrid jazz-biue-
grass-folk acoustic sound. Most recently,
Higbie has been the keyboardist for
Montreux, who records with Windham Hill
Her surprisingly rough voice is
graced by a dedicated perfectionism,
its ease belying the discipline it took to
acquire. Higbie is personally unassum¬
ing, shy and honest—traits which are
unusual in vulnerable artists and which
allow her to compose songs about the
unresolved and about open wounds.
Par for the course is the title cut, ‘Signs
of Life,* where Higbie captures the
tired frustration of a woman who
remains whole when a lover walks,
wondering if It is weakness or strength ENTERTAINING THE TROOPS
that allows us to let go. Bitty Bragg is a troubador for aH nations.
60 OUTTWEEK August 29.1990
to the pressure to produce a less challenging commercial
product. Blazing trails exacts a heavy price.
Normally, I would have tossed this mainstream
effort of warm and moody love songs on the CD sell
pile, but Arena trading has earned the "never sell" distinc¬
tion in my collection.
1 started to enjoy Hearts and Flowers when the echo of
the word "boy" in the first song faded into appropriate pro¬
portion When you are as starved for confirmation as this
lesbian music critic is, it takes a while to get over that
moment, that hopeful opening, elusive and rare, where les¬
bian love might have existed.
Hearts and Flowers, which Armatrading herself pro¬
duced. has a stripped-down sound, with vocals laid bare
on a base of synthesized undercurrents and deep, hollow
shades enclosing the material. Each song is a romantic bal¬
lad that challenges the full extent of Armatrading’s vocal
range, from near falsetto to her natural alto.
Armatrading occasionally hints at her legendary com¬
mand of elaborate turns of romance but falls back only too
quickly on dichi. As a singer and writer noted for her use
of eccentric phrasing and bold sentiments. It is disappoint¬
ing that she takes no such chances on this album.
Although less than spectacular. Hearts and Flowers is
subdued and pleasant. As usual, Armatrading brings a com¬
pelling and original treatment to her work, and her expres¬
sive cadences ease into your consciousness.
Things Here Are Different
Jill Sobule (MCA).
Backed by a tight, seasoned combo, JU1 Sobule marks an
auspicious debut with Things Here Are Different Wfe get the
impression that we are witnessing a phenomenon about to
explode. While the album lacks immediacy and the gripping
vitality of her performance, Sobule * Madonna-esque voice
and whimsical yet firm delivery take your breath away.
Beyond the empty newsprint quality of dogma and
rhetoric, Sobule'* lyrics address life from a woman's point of
view, laughing at absurdities like EST and delusions like the
nationwide faith that Reagan ism could have wished away
poverty and daas. The tide cut tackles the subject of women’s
oppression amidst crosscultural realities and remains mindful
that barriers between continents and generations dissolve
when the differences, hopes and fears are recognized "So
Kind* is a song about love and the conflict that a battered
woman feels for a husband who is violent, kind and recalci¬
trant. Realer than 90 percent of today's radio fine, these songs
put her in a league with the likes of Gfl Scot Heron, Si Kahn,
Lillian Allen, Tlmbuk Three and Public Enemy.
Sobule’s love songs use dark, moody surreal dreams to
express her uncompromising vision. Her healthy cynicism,
along with a full rock sound and not a single mole pronoun
in her lyrics, makes Sobule the newest artist to watch out for
Blues on Broadway.
Ruth Brown (Fantasy Records).
Ruth Brown is the regal queen of rhythm and blues
and soul, and with a string of number-one hits in the ‘40s
and ’50s that made Brown the top-selling Black singer of
▼
the times, Atlantic Records is known as "the house that
Ruth bulk." Although fantastically successful, she was never
fully compensated for her work, since royalties and expo¬
sure were reserved for white artists who would cover her
material and make the television rounds. In the ‘60s her
career ground to a halt, and she found herself driving
school buses, working as a maid and occasionally perform¬
ing in local Long Island dubs to support her two sons.
Brown rcemerged in the late 70s with appearances on
TV and in regional theater companies; eventually, she
found parts in movies. Without question, she still has every
drop of that talent that made her a star. Blues on Broadway
is a compilation of songs from the stage show of the same
name, which had a long run In Europe before hitting
Broadway and earning Brown a Tony award.
Brown adds elegance and charismatic intensity to her
songs here, her dipped intonation reminiscent of Billie
Holiday. Her earthy, gravel-laden delivery, rich and
reserved tonally, recalls the Fairmont and smokey leather-
filled back rooms. Her 1990 Grammy for Blues on
Broadway testifies to the fact that Ruth Brown has returned
to daim what is rightfully hers.
Internationale.
Billy Bragg (Elektra).
If you know the ache of wrists that the state has
bound with steel. If you have ever stood up to the law,
your fbt raised across a barricade to bear witness to the
carnage, (hen Billy Bragg is your troubadour, and the
"Internationale" is your song.
Bragg is a working-class bloke from Barking, London,
a sort of British Greg Brown. Playing solo on the road,
with only acoustic and electric guitars, is the result of cir¬
cumstance: It’s cheaper to play by yourself.
Internationale is a seven-song statement, combining
the Gash inspiration of "The Call Up" with a Michelle
Shocked reality check ("It’* not to much preaching to the
converted as entertaining the troops’). On this effort, Bragg
forgoes his trademark love songs for such sweet and Inspir¬
ing sex (hat even if the context proves it saccharine, it
keeps the hope alive.
Internationale documents the Interplay between pro¬
gressive American folk musk and the British scene. The
tradition is rich: Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie inspired
skiffle singer Ewan MacColl and the folk musk revival In
Britain In the ’50s, ultimately paving the way for Billy
Bragg’s rise to fame in the ’80s. Internationale also
addresses a global audience, attacking imperialist ideology
through song. As the Wobblies once put it, "Only great
movements, (those) that change the course of history,
inspire great musk."
Bragg employs woodwinds, penny whistles, stark
piano accompaniment and brassy choral treatments, evok¬
ing the flavors of Ireland, Jewish klezrocr traditions and
marching-band orchestras—all of whkh Is a far cry from
his mlnlmallstic punk approach, where driving guitar
chords dominate. It is a jrief turn inward, a rallying point
that can invigorate an activist before she or he returns to
the dally push-and-shove. ▼
August 29.1990 0UTWWEEK 61
Books
Text and Sexuality
Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions.
Edited by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow. NYU Press.
115.00 pb. 410 pp.
by Sarah Chinn
I n the growing field of gay and lesbian theory, lesbians
have long been neglected. Until recently, no single col¬
lection of essays dealing with lesbian literary criticism
existed, nor was there a sense of what lesbian theory
could mean. That lesbian Texts and Contexts is the first
collection of exclusively lesbian criticism ever published is a
shocking omission at a time when gay and lesbian studies
have reached a level of acceptance in academia almost
commensurate with such established disciplines as women's
studies and African-American studies, but this is an excd-
That Lesbian Texts and Contexts
Is the first collection of exclu¬
sively lesbian criticism ever pub¬
lished is a shocking omission at a
time when gay and lesbian stud¬
ies have reached a level of accep¬
tance In academia almost
commensurate with such estab¬
lished disciplines as women's
studies and African-American
studies, but this is an excellent
new anthology and the harbinger
of what I hope will be a long line
of lesbian critical writings.
lent new anthology and the harbinger of what I hope will
be a long line of lesbian critical writings. If it does not pro¬
vide all the answers, it will certainly raise provocative ques¬
tions about the role of lesbians in academia. Editors Karla
Jay and Joanne Glasgow have assembled 23 essays, both
academic and informal, on a wide range of topics relevant
to the growing field of lesbian studies Like all collections,
Lesbian Texts and Contexts can be choppy to the point of
unevenness, but this diversity is as much a source of
strength as it is a cause for irritation.
The book is divided into three sections—'Writers on
Their \tbrk,* lesbian Encodings. Decodings* and "Lesbian
Themes, Sources*—and takes as its standard Adrienne Rich's
model of ‘re-vision*: ‘the act of seeing with fresh eyes, of
entering an old text from a new critical direction.* Jay and
Glasgow admit to consciously having selected essays that
‘examine the complex entanglements of Identity, voice,
intersubjectivity, tactualities and sexualities,* in this way
sharing In this project of re-vision The majority live up to
this ambition; others at least make a valiant effort.
It's typical of the diversity of lesbian criticism (and die
perversity of my own taste) that my two favorite
pieces—Elizabeth Meese's Theorizing Lesbian :TOi ting—A
Love Letter* and Lee Lynch's ‘Cruising the Libraries,' (with
Paula Benner's The Pea That Duty Locks: Lesbian and
Feminist-Heterosexual Readings of Emily Dickinson's Poetry*
running a dose third)—ore the most dissimilar and yet,
oddly, die most alike. Both are powerfully articulate about
lesbian desire and language; both are intelligent, arousing, a
little stubborn and passionate about what it means, in semi¬
otic and material terms, to be a lesbian. For Meese. to write
lesbian or lesbian* or as a lesbian seems to efface the indi¬
vidual lesbian body while literal izing it; it creates a new enti¬
ty, (the) *lesbian:writing*: 1WJhen...our fingers, soft and
electric, just meet- .or as the pen makes to tracks across the
body of the page, its friction and its struggle to work the
course faithfully, our passions inscribed energetically in the
body of language in the mind: a love letter.*
Fiercely erotic, appropriating the terms of
phallo(go)centric discourse for lesbian use, this is some of
the best lesbian criticism around. After all, who would have
thought of the pen as a tool for the expression of lesbian
desire in a literate culture in which "pen is* is equated with
62 OUTTWEEK August 29,1990
•penis'? It is in moments like this that Meese takes the
mo« powerful and potentially revolutionary facets of post-
structuralist discourse—a discipline which constantly ques¬
tions how we function within, and are defined by,
language and, by extension, the endless flexibility of lan¬
guage itself—and molds them lovingly into lesbian artifacts.
But, this essay's problem is that we cant always under¬
stand what Meese means, like many feminist critics who
employ poststruauralkst theory, she seems unable to distin¬
guish between language that powerfully communicates new
meanings and incomprehensible jargon that alienates. Her
reliance on the theory of Jacques Derrida, the •father' of
deconstruction theory, is so strong as to be absurd—for
example, in her tendency to Identify Derrida's concepts in
reference to the essays in which they appear rather than
what they actually mean. The assumption that every reader
will be familiar with this theory acts as an elitist barrier
between the essay and its potential audience. It is in this
light that Lee Lynch's essay, 'Cruising the Libraries,*
becomes relevant An autobiographical piece about young
Lee’s search for a glimpse of herself on the shelves of the
public libraries and bookstores of New York becomes a
reflection on what we want lesbian or lesbian-related texts
to do. Lynch shows that theory can only work when it is
deeply invested in the very real problem that most lesbians
face in finding ourselves in texts without needing to wade
through subtexts and subterfuges.
Unfortunately, the efforts of lesbian critics In the third
section of Lesbian Texts and Contexts to read actively les¬
bian texts are less successful than the theories of reading
(as a lesbian) or even the re-visions of traditionally
straight texts that are presented in the first two parts of
the book. The essay becomes a regurgitation of whatever
lesbian text it describes (for example, Alice Parker's dis¬
cussion of the Quebecoise lesbian Nicole Brossard or, to
a certain extent, Namascar Shaktini’s analysis of Monique
Wittig s The Lesbian Body), a blow-by-blow exegesis of
plot, such as Annette Van Dyke’s treatment of Paula Gunn
Allen's novel The Vbman Wbo Owned the Shadows, or a
tantalizing but incomplete treatment of a fascinating sub¬
ject In another vein, even the strongest stomach may turn
at Mary Meigs' essay 'Palling Between the Cracks,' one of
the few failed attempts in the book's first section. Meigs
exploits a discussion of her own work to get back at her
critics and to insist on her own subjectivity/superiority. In
the hands of a more seif-critical writer, this strategy could
be quite effective, especially In relation to her critique of
the prurience with which the straight media read Kate
Millett’s lesbianism; for Meigs, however, attacks on her
critics sound too much like whining.
Some of the essays in the third section, however, are
very exciting, such as a discussion of the relationship
between the 'decadent* poems of Swinburne and H D 's
literary and sexual development, Joanne Glasgow's thor¬
ough investigation of conversions to Catholicism among
the expatriate community of American and English lesbians
in Paris in the early-to-mid-20th century and Karla Jay's
interrogation of Dfuna Barnes' ladies' Almanack as a biting
satire of those very expatriates. But the majority of critics
After all, who would have
thought of the pen as a tool
for the expression of lesbian
desire In a literate culture In
which M pen Is" Is equated
with “penis*?
represented in this section are curiously uninspired by the
very texts that 15-year-old Lee Lynch would have pored
over had she had the good fortune to discover them on her
library shelf.
It’s ironic that with the wealth of out(ish) lesbian mate¬
rial to choose from, the best critical reading is Paula
Bennett's analysis of the lesbian (auto)eroticism in Emily
Dickinson’s poetry. Indeed. Bennett encapsulates what is at
stake in lesbian criticism more ably than any French les¬
bian feminists’ wordy analyses can:
TDo those critics who read (Dickinson, and by exten¬
sion, any female writer], the central narrative of Dickinson's
career Is her struggle with the male tradition... Their concern
is with 'a woman's place In a man's world,' even when...they
acknowledge the presence of homoerotic strands in the
poet's life and work. In contrast to these critics are [lesbian-
oriented readers] who believe that Dickinson's relationships
with women are of greater significance than her struggles
with men or the male tradition- . . . To these critics, the central
struggle In Dickinson's career is not...'to wrest an indepen¬
dent vision' from the male, but to find a way to Identify and
utilize specifically female power in her work.*
Bennett’s cut-glass clarity—compared with the fuzzi¬
ness of several of the earlier essays—raises a troubling
question. Are we so used to combing rigorously through
‘straight* texts for the slightest (and some not so slight) sig¬
nifies of lesbian desire that we are stymied when it stares
us in the face?
Ultimately, Lesbian Texts and Contexts is like many
of the lesbians we know: challenging, sexy, sometimes
self-righteous, at other times Inconsistent, but never bor¬
ing. My major complaint is that there is no essay devoted
to my favorite literary lesbian, Gertrude Stein. In fact,
several of the essays in the collection invoke Stein as if
she were already canonized and thus a less powerfully
iconoclastic lesbian figure, rather than recognizing that
the majority of American(ist)s regard her as. at best, a
marginal figure In the great male preserve of modernism.
This sort of paradox keeps a good anthology like
Lesbian Texts and Contexts from being great: an under¬
standing that to be a ‘lesbian:writing,* as Elizabeth Meese
puts it. Is a revolutionary act and requires readings of a
revolutionary, (re-)visionary sort. Stein herself once
noted: 'If everyone were not so indolent, they would
realize that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and
stimulating, not only when it is accepted and classic.* ▼
August 29,1990 OUTVWEEK 63
Books
Sleazy Rider
Doc and Fluff by Pat Califia. AJyvxi
Publications. $8.95 pb. 320 pp.
by Wickie Stamps
oc and Fluff, Pat Califia's
newest erotic adventure,
throws together a bad-ass
butch biker and a young,
into gay and lesbian lifestyles that were
once virgin literary territories. Whether
careening onto politically contentious
lesbian lands overrun by gun-packing
separatists or coasting into the teeming
urban ghetto, the desperate heroines
are sheltered by sexual renegades, the
leather dykes, the passing women and
the high-stepping pimps who offer sus¬
tenance and asylum
Like Califia's previous short story
The only time Califla veers from
her subject is when she steers us into
equally mesmerizing, chillingly plausi¬
ble subplots that ricochet off a politi¬
cal backdrop of government-funded
AIDS quarantine camps, drug wars
and maniacal right-wing and left-wing
splinter groups. While Doc and Fluff
snooze (or hick), these characters—
outlaws all—tirelessly combat commu¬
nity violence. The back-talking biker
chides, disgusted with their old men’s
blind obedience to their woman-beat¬
ing Prez, organize sex and cooking
boycotts against his plans. At other
points, gay bikers end up in cahoots
fernmy ntghtwalkcr to create an unlikely
couple but a winning love story.
Opening on a sinister Hell's Angd's den,
the futuristic tale ignites when Doc, an
old crony of the bike dub's president,
Prez, unexpectedly takes off on her
motorcycle wih Fluff. Their jaunt soon
explodes into a dyke version of Road
Warrior, for unbeknownst to Doc, her
sassy playmate Is the Pro's old lady.
With nary a misfire, Califia's first
novel-length effort slams full throttle
collection. Macho Sluts, Doc and Fluff
rejects a myopic understanding of gay
and lesbian sexuality. Clamped onto her
powerful, erotic prose, youH hightail h
into worlds of switch-hitting bikers,
sadomasochistic lesbian high priestesses
and hookers who, in between plying
their trade, replenish their soub wih lev
bian love. You'D even unearth lesbian
sacrilege: Dykes skulking around lesbian
lands practicing not only woman-child
love but also ’daddy’ roles.
with lesbian separatists, and—togeth¬
er—they plot revenge against a rapist.
Califia’s communities may be down,
but they are not defeated.
Doc and Fluff Is a must read But
stand forewarned Califia’s band of lov¬
able and villainous misfits will not only
wreak havoc on your constrained defini¬
tion of gay and lesbian lifestyles, but
once they've had their way with you,
they'll bogart their way into your heart
So get ready for a nimble. ▼
64 OUTTWEEK August 29,1990
Artcetera
In Defense of
Pornography
by John Preston
I write pornography because it’s a
form of gay men's vernacular litera¬
ture, created in our own language
about our own passions and the
ways we use our own bodies to
ex p r es s those passions. If another per¬
son can get beyond his or her preju¬
dices to be able to bear the beauty in
pornography or listen to its truths,
they’re welcome, but the purpose of
pornography is not to win endorse¬
ment. Nor should any gay art be an
attempt at sympathy or approval. Gay
and lesbian art of all kinds should be
a statement of befog. The response of
any group or organization that daims
inclusivity must be to work to
acknowledge those statements
Since I first began to publish,
there have been many temptations to
leave my pornographic work behind I
created an enigma in critics’ minds
because, while I wrote extravagantly
about Mr. Benson and developed a
fanciful world in my Master series and
other pornographic bools, 1 also con¬
tributed to major magazines and pub¬
lished novels and anthologies on
decidedly nonerotic themes.
Critics don't like writers who
escape from tight boundaries. I found
many who wanted me to impolitely
disown my sexual work by saying,
This isn’t really pornography —this is
erotica.' Or: This is too good to be
pornography ' I've resisted every such
invitation. Surprisingly, a few people,
including my editors in mainstream pub¬
lishing houses, not only support my
resistance, they celebrate every mention
of my pornography In interviews or
reviews. This will keep you honest,*
they tell me. Befog a pomographer wih
a very real following is part of my
uniqueness as a writer. It also keeps me
from lusting after a 'crossover" reader-
ship too much, the desire to be read by
book buyers in national chain stores, an
invitation to instant mediocrity.
Whether because of some real skill
in my writing or because of a simple
reward for perseverance or for some
other reason, I was invited to apply for a
grant from the National Endowment for
the Arts in creative nonfiction last year.
Our isolation from
these grants shouldn’t
silence us; it should
make us speak more
loudly. The answer to
bad speech Is more
speech. And the
absence of our
speech from the canon
of NEA literature
doesn’t condemn us;
It condemns them.
As part of my application, 1 had to sub¬
mit a writing sample. Everyone agreed
that I should send a piece I’d written for
the forthcoming anthology High Risk
(edited by Amy Scholder and Ira
Silverberg, to be published by NAL/
Plume next spring). This essay was a
defense of writing pornography in the
time of AIDS. While the topic was unde¬
niably provocative, the essay was simply
the strongest I had on hand.
Innocently, I sent off 'How Dare
You Think These Things.* While I
never counted the money, I did listen
to people who were certain that it was
a sure thing. Then I watched in amaze¬
ment as the Mapplethorpe controversy
blew up. I laughed with horror as
Helms mounted his forces and even
those Americans in the political cento
tan in dismay from any position which
would seem to support pornography.
So much for my 120,000! Sur¬
prisingly, I was not disappointed by all
of this. In fact, I fob refreshed in a way.
just as when an editor or friend found
delight in some mention of Mr. Benson
in the mainstream press. What had
happened here? What was going on?
The upset over the NEA fiasco
isn’t an isolated occasion. It reflects a
kind of self-deception with which the
gay and lesbian world has lived. In
the context of the NEA, simply put, I
and others assumed that the quality
of our work and the accumulation of
our talents were such that the estab¬
lishment—In this case, the federal
bureaucracy—would ignore our sex¬
uality. We were, we insisted, no dif¬
ferent from any other artist
Wfe felt buttressed by the accep¬
tance many of us had found in other
arenas. Mainstream publishing, no
matter what some may think, is no
longer overtly homophobic. If I can
have dinner with Susan Peterson, the
powerful BaLlantme publisher, certain¬
ly I can get a federal grant, I thought
Similar thinking had led others to the
same conclusion.
Pan of the argument is over the
role of artists In our society. Artists
themselves have probably misidenti-
fied that role in this battle. As Larry
McMurty said in a special letter to
PEN members, sent In his capacity as
president of PEN America Center, 'If
there’s one root cause why this lobby¬
ing effbn fto shore up the NEA] has fall¬
en short, it Is that the arts community
has not managed to refrain from sound¬
ing entitled.' Gay men and lesbians
speaking out against the NEA make the
same mistake. In a general letter to the
preM, a group of lesbian writers, includ¬
ing the three who did receive NEA
grants this cyde, said, IBeing] lesbian
or gay is not obscene by definition.* It is
August 29.1990 OUTTWEEK 66
not obscene to be lesbian or gay as far
as we are concerned, but it still is so for
the general public, and we should
know that
Our response should be to create
more pornography and to do it In
more places. In a recent issue of Gay
Community News, Chris Neal on, writ¬
ing about guerrilla art actions by
groups such as Gran Fury, says:
‘Instead of scrambling to preserve
what little mainstream endorsement
there is for lesbian and gay art...these
actions produce more art.’ The same
can be said for our writing.
It is hard to Justify statements that
daim that removing federal funding is a
form of censorship. Ifs not that; it's a
removal of validation. Looking for
authentication from the authorities is not
a way to produce gay art, but a way to
lose it The battle we should be fighting
isn't simply one directed against the
bureaucracy or any other form of main¬
stream sponsorship. The real battle
should be to continually work to reach
our own audience, to authenticate its
bravery, to substantiate its experience,
to speak to its head
The politicians among us should
continue to fight for our share of any
federal money, but writers and other
artists aren't necessarily hurt by being
denied NEA certification—in fact, we
may be helped. Our isolation from these
grants shouldn't silence us; it should
make us speak more loudly. The
answer to bad speech is more speech.
And the absence of our speech from the
canon of NEA literature doesn't con¬
demn us; k condemns them. ▼
I Author, editor and AIDS educator John
Preston is a regular contributor to
OutWcek and Lambda Book Report.
I He is at present working on several
\book projects. _
QUACKBUSTERS from 41
Herbert physically attacked and stole
the tape recorder from a well-known
advocate for alternative treaments
for cancer who was rebutting
Herbert's statements. Herbert was
convicted of assault and theft, al¬
though a higher court overturned
the conviction on a technicality.
•Dr. John Renner, a council official
and coordinator of the upcoming
Kansas City conference, success¬
fully pressured a radio station in
that city to remove from the air¬
waves an acupuncturist and nu¬
tritionist who had a regular
health program.
• In May 1990, after national cable TV
station CNBC set up a pond discus¬
sion on ‘AIDS Treatment Fraud,’
Renner, Monaco and federal ‘quack-
busters’ refused to allow an invit¬
ed member of ACT UP/NY to ap¬
pear with them or to have any
activists in the audience. (The station
then tried to begin the program
without the activists, but their firm
opposition forced the station to
cancel the broadcast.)
The upcoming conference and
the ongoing ‘quackbusting* campaign
pose a major threat to the ability of
PWAs to exercise freedom of informed
choice. Diatribes by the ‘quack-
busters’ have dissuaded any doctors
from being open to their PWAs' inter¬
est in alternative medicine and have
misled many PWAs themselves as to
the alleged ‘dangers’ and the ‘worth¬
lessness’ of such treatments. Mean¬
while, this campaign has reinforced
the medical establishment's justifica¬
tion for refusing insurance reimburse¬
ment and clinical trials of even the
most scientifically based unconven¬
tional treatments. More directly, the
training - of state prosecutors at these
conferences has led to the legal attacks
on holistic doctors.
ACT UP/NY and ACT UP/Kansas
City have announced plans to mount
a national demonstration both outside
and inside the ‘quackbusters’ confer¬
ence. In addition, a nationwide phone
zap will be organized to express out¬
rage to conference organizers. The
two ACT UPs are actively building
coalitions with alternative cancer and
holistic-health organizations, many of
which eagerly a wart a chance to coo-
front their persecutors.
PWAs don’t need ‘consumer
protectors’ to close out their options.
Through research and education, the
PWA community has exposed, and
will continue to expose, the real rip-
offs and frauds in both conventional
and alternative medicine. But from
the first days of the AIDS movement,
a cardinal principle has been that
PWAs must have the freedom to
make informed choices of their own
-▼
treatments. As PWAs increasingly
turn to unapproved and holistic ap¬
proaches, the AIDS movement must
build a powerful campaign to expose
and fight the false ‘quackbusters.’
For more information on the
demonstration in Kansas City and on
New York City teach-ins, call ACT
UP/NY at (212) 989-1114 or ACT
UP/KC at (816) 755-5930. To express
your protest directly to conference or¬
ganizers, call the National Council
Against Health Fraud at (800) 821-6671.
PANTHERS from p*f« <7
Of course, the final test of power to
its ability to effect change. That means
that the group will have to grow drasti¬
cally and. since gays and lesbians live
everywhere in the city, will have to
spread (he sign of the paw far beyond
the West Village. And that means that
the Pink Panther Patrol has, by mem¬
bers’ own admission, a long way to go.
Man Foreman puts it this way 1 have
no reason to believe that bashers are
going to give up what they perceive as
a fun sport. If one sporting area is
dosed, they’ll go elsewhere This to Just
one small step "
7b volunteer for, or make dona¬
tions to, tbe Pink Panther Patrol, con¬
tact Gerri Wells at (212) 475-4363
Meetings are held Tuesdays from 6 to
9 pm at tbe Gay and Lesbian
Community Services Center, 208 W.
13tb St., in Manhattan. T
ETHYl froai page 27
known about degradation and liberation
*We are women who survive,* Ethyl
would sing at the dose of all but the Last
of his transcendent plays. ‘But we will
live to fight another day." Here lies one
irreplaceable queen.
PS. 122 to accepting donations to
assist in funeral arrangements for Ethyl
Eachelberger. Checks should be marked
for that purpose and mailed to P.S. 122
at 150 First Ave., New York, NY 10009.
A memorial service is being planned for
late September; for more information,
call (212) 477-5288.
—Walter Arms tr ong
Qoe E. Jeffreys, a frequent contributor
to OutWeek , archivist at PS. 122 and
PhD candidate in performance studies at
NYU, was an inuoluable source for all
information in these notes He is presentiy
at work on a dissertation on Ethyl
EkbtBmge r)
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MAYA tram pat* M
issing." I Mid to her Ton sure it Is. But
the more you hear about it, the more
you'll get used to it*
JBi Does your decision to concen¬
trate on comedy in mainstream clubs
require compromise? Is it a conscious
effort to reach out to straights with gay-
themed material?
FM: There's always compromise
when you seek a bigger forum. Comedi¬
ans in general don't have a mission, but
some of us do. I think of myself as
painting a picture for people. A lot of
downtown performers are a little afraid
of saying it, but they would rather be
mainstream than play PS. 122 for the
rest of their lives.
I've never had a hip downtown
audience. If you catch a show of mine at
P.S. 122, there’s a downtown audience
and a gay audience. But there's also the
couples from Long Island who read
about me in Neusday and come to see
this new comedian. And I like having
them there.
JBt Do you receive advice from
closeted gay performers?
FMi People who are on the edge of
being out have been very supportive.
People who should be out—and
aren’t—are tremendously intimidated. A
closeted gay comedienne called me from
the Midwest and confronted me. after
reading an article where I say that gay
performers should be out of the closet.
She said, ‘Easy for you to My, being a
downtown performer.* 1 told her I wasn't
afraid to do it anywhere else. When I got
the cable gig, even the most radical of
downtown performers doubted that I
would do gay material.
JB: Has an emphasis on gay materi¬
al lost you any gigs’
FM: I don't think so. If anything, it
piques interest. People in the business
know gay comedians and performer s are
coming up. There's going to be an explo¬
sion of it. There’s gotta be. And the
industry wants to be in on It I don't
think the people at HA! had any gay-
rights agenda. They just thought my act
was very funny, and they got the point.
JBj You take a strong stand in sup¬
port of tolerance of lesbians and gay
men in your act Are there aspects of
gay life you would like to satirize but
« OUTWWEEK August 29.1990
are hesitant to do them for straight audi¬
ences for fear of providing anti-gay
ammunition?
FM: I have new material, but it
would have to be in a gay context. I
compare this to Richard Pryor’s shows.
He made fun of Blacks a lot, but he had
a large Black audience. Ifs for them to
laugh at. fWhitesI can join In on it, but
it's a validating thing for Blacks. I have a
problem with a gay comic who gets up
in front of a straight audience and rein¬
forces stereotypes.
JB: A lot of your earlier material
seemed to spring from standard urban
paranoia.
FM: I still have that feeling. It’s just
being translated into different things.
JB« Yet, you seem a mellower, hap¬
pier performer than you were during
your days as a ranter. Has some of the
sting gone out of the act?
FM: During The Pury,' when I talk
about the parallel between calling some¬
one "faggot' and ‘nigger," the tension in
the audience is much higher than any¬
thing I ever got with ranting. Ranting
was over the top; you didn't have to
take it seriously. Ranting was a wall
between me and the audience. If I had
done the gay material in a ranting style,
people wouldn't have listened to it.
When you mix serious subjects with an
edgy style, people won't listen.
1 sdll have the ability to rant—I'm
not censoring myself. But I also have a
lot more confidence in myself that I can
get up and just talk to an audience. ▼
lgAMBtYPHtY t r— mi‘M
way looking for a check mom. Next thing I
knew, I was smoking a cigarette with this
young girl who kept asking me who Oscar
Wilde was.
Mandy: Roxy—the urildejt scene in
Manhattan and I'm wearing my favorite
Romeo Gigli outfit. The door girl had this
iirde black leather jacket with a faux beaver
collar. I tcil her, ‘Nice beaver.* Fern asks
for drink tickets, and we head into this
week's Carnival in Roxy.
Fern: We are ushered into the VIP
room by a very tall drag queen whom I
recognize from a film. She took entirely too
long to see us. Mandy says, and I mention
the young man who is Riling her line of
vision, in addition to her mouth with his
tongue. It would be difficult to see past
your nose on that one.
There is very little air in there. Don't
VIPs deserve air, I say, to no one in partic¬
ular. Downstairs looks like s very large
kaleidos co pe—glitter, tutus and mote ‘hot
sweaty boys.* Mandy talks to someone in a
comer, and during the hill in conversation,
I hear ‘I Woke Up to Love This Morning*.
A wave washes over me—no, merely a
spilt drink. I ask Mandy if she would like to
stay on here 1 hear my bed calling me.
She replies ‘Sure honey, I'm fine, but I
don't know if k's a good idea to be by
yourself.* I note that I am often alone, and
that right now I would like to be the last
survivor of nudear war, if it would at least
eliminate these swirls of misguided youth.
She nods, and says, ‘OK sweetie, but don't
say I didn't warn you*.
Thirteen hours later, I am still pacing
the length of my apartment, on the telephone
wnh my higfvschoot English teacher ▼
Tffiwwr
AN EVENTS CALENDAR
B.rtshirM (MA). AM 31 RM KPT ft EES Leahies ItorMA EjAIW*~.
frae dam to 'onjoy nature. meet each showing the history of unto- mMrsrten
other A bt together*. ties 'em. pay- with advocacy «i leebiarVgey rigM*. the
Chodr.m., meditation, body-mind Importof AiOS, domestic partner bw
awareness. dance, A loU of tun ft Am. enti-bia* crime locution, tamo-
games'. *243 lor weekend Includes phobia; In tho lobby. DC 37
room ft board; Kon 42D0334 Headquarter*. IS Barclay Sc DAILY, I
am-*p« (thru AUG 30*
WOMEN ABOUT Cwyb| at Wa«h Hft
Campground, Flro Island. Info/ravp THE GUNES proaonta Jobs eilaaa
291/433-tS74 (AIM 3Mn KPTI) Mas ad Menbe r ma. dVactod by Chartaa
Cannae*. *a colobraton of the delight-
FOURTH MEW YORK USBIAN ANO fm diversity of gay Ho In NYC boro and
CAY EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL now’ with aavan actora playing 23
runs leptamba* Ift-M at Anthology Film eharaetora Im a aariai ot vignattsa
Archhra*. 2nd Ara at 2nd St. with 31 InvoMng an actot-waber, phono-aaa
film* (22 prc-iaraah lido, K5-I493L »• wars, guppie lawyer*. gym hunk*. a
1033 (praaa acraanlnga AUG 12-»l atflppaj-buattor. manyptbara, with
INT'L 6AY ft USBIAN OUTDOORS Orflold. T.L Aallly. Laalla Robofta.
ORGANIZATION JHmbmos It Rapt 1ft Richard Skipper. «» Wizard, at the
II. at a 233-acre campground In aaat Caurtyard Playhouse. 33 Srova SC Sift
am PA noar Philadelphia, with laka. WEO-FW at I pm. SAT etl&Spm. SUN
woods, lawn*. sports nalde and courts, at 7 pat; 1*3830 (thru SEPT 2)
roc ha la. Olyanpic-aln poot derer-aty**
accommodattor.a; S13S tor four days, SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK peasants
21*338-8943 OaaiM Waahlagtaa in tho Thags* ad
_ _ King Rickard * at the Dbleeorta Tta-
n/C Y ADTC atar.antarCan.il Park Watt at »1S« or
LIVC.LT Mil I 0 Fifth Arc at 73 St; frsa; TUE-SUN at I
[Alto too rta dolly llttingi for pm. tlckati issued at US pm (but tha
atawfSagl* of eo# or bwd*y*J Ina forma aartft»1-7777 (thru SEPT 2)
Monday to be Included In the foi
ADVANCE
NORTH CAROLINA SENATE VOTE SOTO
Canter. 203 W O Sc tor Woo# who on
serious about making that dream coma
trua by raising moony and planning lor
the October • Ratty bora In NYC. Into
LIVELY ARTS
WOMEN ABOUT Camping at Wsch HR
Campground. Fire Island; Inlo/rsvp
201/433-1374 CAU6 Jlthn SOT S
FOURTH NEW YORK USBIAN ANO
GAY EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
runs September 13-1* otArchology Film
Archives, 2nd Ara at 2nd St. wWi 31
flaw (22 premieraek Info, 363-I49SL *
1(03 (pram acraanlnga AU6 12-151
INT'L 6AY ft USBIAN OUTDOORS
ORGANIZATION Anl a mt «L Sept 13-
13; at a 233-acm campground In saat-
arn PA near Philadelphia, wrth laka.
by Cbartia Haaalay, 100 7th Ara South
(Sheridan Sql Sift TUE-SAT at 7:30 pm.
SUN at J ft I pm; To 364-3030. theater
681-<22( (thru SEPT II)
BIU. REPICCI. M.O MINICHIEU0 ft
PAPA praoant Tarry ftm a n ay •< Namcy
Raagsn n *t SM My ftmt tfrscted by
BIB Lovefey. at Actors Playhouse. MB
7th Ara Smith (Sheridan Squire* THU-
SAT at tO pm. SUN at • pne tk 9440ft
theater 3814223 l*ru OCT 71
FRI at I pm. SAT ft SUN at 7 pne 331-2271
LIVING THEATRE praaanta Erie Bent
ley's (trail Regafem. directed by
Judith Malms: a Romeo ft Jafttt them*
with lots of politics and some nudity:
272 E 3 SC HO ganaraVST ttudant* tnd
DEBORAH GUCX FOR STATE ASSEMBLY
Oabarnh Gllab Vola.toar Nights ore
•very TU(. W*D and THU unct Bocdon
Day. IS W 13 SC M Flow. *30-340 pm
You can hare fun. moat paaplo. and
help elect a progressive, laahlan
activist to the state house In New York.
Info 727-191*
Wesklagtea. OC. AU8 Iftbra KPT ft
welcome rscepdon on Capitol Hit. tour¬
ing leaders workshops, dinner pony at
Dupont Circle Hotel Sunday afternoon
picnic. Labor Day Dim Sum In China¬
town; SOS (plus transportsdoiVeccom-
medadenal; Info from Paul 212*74-*33
NORTHEAST WOMEN'S MUSICAL
RETREAT MR Yaw C olsRmden. Labor
Day Weekend. AUQ 31 Bm KPT 3, In
PoyntaSa. PA toning ft cabins, craft*,
workshop* concerts ft performances,
rldeoa. games, swimming, more, with
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATRE
SCHOOL praaanta Theaeas 0'laary'a
frraii directed by Jim Pall, with
AIDS, whose mother, a famous TV star,
finally comas t* vlah him* whore ho
'llres with hla lesbian aunt In Kny
We«f\ MON-SAT at I pm (showing wkh
two other short plays); S3, rsvp *33-
3423; M-F. 10 am • I pm (thru AUG 25)
Ihsr Warts a. Marcalla Uaklay. Isaiah
a haul aubatanaa abuaa. dm dyshmadonal
family, AIDS and tha NfV-infaaud. and
how tvaaa trsgidNi alfaat dm Hack amis;
VI Qammsnt It (at Lafayette l Brooklyn:
tl J » FW A SAT a 1 1 pm. SUN at J ft I
pm;7tN7tb33H(d<ruAU0»1
Adlseic. 31 Chrlataphar St ME comer
at 7th Amk S3 ♦ two-drtak min.; every
TUK at 10 pm; 230-3433 (thru AUG 21)
USBIAN ANO GAY ISSUES COMMIT¬
TEE. DISTRICT 37 MUNICIPAL EMPLOY-
RIVERSIDE CHURCH SOCIAL JUSTICE
MINISTRY Tba AtOi Awareeea* Mo-
ploy, Gall S. Goodman’s photos,
close-ups of penois from tho Names
Prefect quilt; Riverside Church, Beer-
side Or. at 120 St l/l/PS to IlftBwayt
daily. S am • I pm; free (Editor a idea:
Follow this whh tha Bsl Tower's vlewi)
JOSEPH PAPP praaanta lodoooot
Motorlalo. an adaptation of some of
Senator Jess* Holms’ speeches on
aru funding «nd obicanlty; and
fteper* from the Mateausk adapted
from Larry Kramer's AlOS-crlala
aaiayr, wtlh Patricia (agaraa. 0aa4d
Ring. Rabacca Hateblnr at tha Pub-
Ilc/Suaan Stain Sbhra Theater. SIS;
TUE-SAT at I pm; SAT ft SUN at 3 pm;
M-7130IAU6 22 thru SEPT »
PROVINCETOWN'S GIFFORD HOUSE
HOTEL praaanta Kerry Ashton s Fla
Wlldo Stlrlt. a ona-man play with
music baaed on tha Ms and work* of
Oscar Wilde; t-11 Carver Street.
Provide sown. MA Sift WED-SAT at 7
pm (also on JULY 2 ft ft and SEPT 2; 7
pm). 301/437-3400 (thru SEPT 15)
BIU REPICCI. M.D. MINICHIEU0 ft
PAPA, present Michoel Tremblay's
Mnaaa a* starring David McCaan and
Osvld DaRack u two lovara npartonc-
ing a biaarrs Hahowoon night dbeettd
Thun; WED-SUN. I pm; 373 0*04
Mas to Ear*, sat In Maul, a young
man's coming to torms after losing Nt
lover to AIDS; Bleacher Street Cinema.
144 Blaackar Sl 174-2330; Cimagla
Screening Ream. U7 Seventh Ave.
717-2131
New York during tho AIDS crisis;
Grammarcy. 23 St at Islington Ave,
473-1110 (Editor's note, You can coll
Now YOrt Magulno'a 777-FILM, with
•rnn coda 212 or 201. for specific
MONDAY AUG.20
AIOS FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW YORK
statua with family members; people
wtth such oigerlenco w4B bo present
at tho Comer. 20R W O St 7-30 pm; S10
(tu daductfelo); Fron. 38t -5683
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATRE
SCHOOL praaanta Themes 0‘Uory‘a
ftmm* (thru AUG 2ft see UVELY ARTS)
SLOPE ACT7VIT1CS FOR LESS IANS lam
biaa Laundry Mght and (vaaiag Qatek-
la: starts with SAL gala doing laundry
together at tha laundromat at 173 Tib
Aua (at tat St); Park Stop* BUyiq 7 pm;
70 OUTTWEEK August 29.1990
6AY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORNS
COUNTY NJWtaMr
"Ah Tho 6dy Mag 6mm. «t Monte
town Unitarian Fallowahip. 21 Nor-
pm; 201/2*5-1586
LAVENOER LIGHT GOSPEL CHOIR Par
TUESDAY, AUG. 21
GAY MEN S HEALTH OUSIS MTV Note*
Ite Informatiea and
3rd Tueaday; 129 W 20 St flanert* 3rd
Roof A Nutrition. Hi Floor 7 pm; froo.
807-8888. TOO M8-7470
COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAY
RIGHTS hrw Who tepraaaett O.I A
dobote l T c tedldotee ter Bm tin AO.
NINTH STREET CENTER *Queor Quo.
on *31. r Brooklyn Academy of Mueic.
SO Lafayette A*o; 2-5 poi each itey, rwp
noc.u.rr it 71KS38-4107
S HE SCAPE Afterwort Party hr P
•I Private Eye*. 12 W 21 St (btvra
Scf/Bth Aroit 5 10 pm (you may luyoc
lor YMVA Night at 101; S5 before 7/S7
from 5-7 pa will go to tea Gay A Laa-
Maa M all aaT A dMarant gey/let
blart (roup benefit* aaeh
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
JOSEPH RAPP opena Mecaar Manari-
afa and A apart Eras tea Nafacaaal
Ithru SEPT % aaa LIVELY ARTS)
SCOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Pool
Nlfbt at IraaraateM ■illlarda. Flat-
bush B 7th Avaa, Bkfyn. I pm. IntiVnvp
mm. 1*2 11th Aaa (at 21 SO, II
11-MSI
PYRAMID praMats Uada Simp
mml a* G.y Horn, S»Ofip*t Cbtr.
Avenue A (beam 1/7 Stale 1 am ‘
THURSDAY, AUG. 23
SUHIR often Ur aad Naaa Plan lay.
Braap. a diffaraat facilitator aach
•*•«*"* Jt» E • St boaataonc 1-10 pm;
228-9183 (Thara la alao a Satarday
rwipJ
OUTRAGE INTO ACTION MaaRay After
tea Merab. mora follow-up on tea
protect againat hata crlmaa; at Part
Slopa Moteodtet Church,! St at Oth Ara
(enter on 8 StL Brooklyn; 8 pm
WOMENS ALTERNATIVES COMMUNI¬
TY CENTER
alae graap. In Watt Hompctaad. U; I
pm. S3. SlG'ttS-2090
SOUTHERNERS Pat lank S
PNESDAY.AUG.22 _
WOMEN $ ALTERNATIVES COMMU¬
NITY CENTER Laaklaa dltcaialaa
graap: fa Varttrlrtf Par Paaf,
ehaoalng to hova, or not hova. chll-
dran; Waot Hampttaod; U; S3;
I n MO-2090
FRIDAY. AUG. 24
NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Fraa Paatry
mcA, nnrs rcai.VHL aponaori A “* * - - ~
§f ffis Pmy Wortstef t iifl t
aateParo of Date Boor Craw, tho young I MEN Of ALL COLORS T0GETHEVNY
poato colloctlvo; ten All8 II; with Saelal Opaa Haaoa aad Aagaot
Padro Ptetri on *72. Pool Baany on I Nawatetter Mailing. bring munchlaa
education and policy apedallet. will
facua on howto integrate AIDS Infor¬
mation Into a claaaroom curriculum;
20SWU9cMpm;SS(norovp)
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FEDERATION For-
maRoo MnMeg te Stert a Boy Caaeaa
within tho union for Now Tort Stoto
proteoolonol employees ot tho Center,
201W IS 3« eaclel 57 pm. mootteg 74
pm. 11*832 8027
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Soma Night; Pohar Party, bring carte
Pf you have), pannlaa. anacka/bovtr-
•goa; Park Slope; 7 JO pm; Info/ravp
and bavoragoa and 'noah. *»h, danca,
and etofT; opan te alt at tea Cantor,
208 W 13 St 7 45 pm; 245 5368
6AY MEN OF AFRICAN 0ESCENT
titten from Caollbon ol Outragad Laa-
btana. Lot Buanaa Amlgaa. Africa n-
Amerieen Wlmmin United for Societal
Change, oth art; at tea Canter. 201 W
13 St I pm. Canter 820-7310
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
ba played, and to which you bring
Phranc pte and Mo Mo (Phranc won't
bo tharaL 'drato at botch aa you dara.
avan If yau a rant butch identified.
There w81 ba centaate*; Park Slopa; 8
P»; Info/ravp 711/865-7578
THE CUT CLUB praaante 8/ra Me
Body Party, with *tniy go-go
dancera. I at bo ndeea* and Si drmka
before 10 pm; *leaa draat it beat*;
«32 W 14 St (at Weah. St); opan 9 pm
• 4 am; |8: 529-3387, 408-1114 (ovary
Other Friday; alternate! with Mate)
CABARET AT CASTILLO pratanu
Pablie Diapley* af Bay aad Nat Say
Sexeellty. with comadlana. slngart.
drag ertltta, magic lana, a ban ate for
tho Cactlllo Cultural Canter; 500
Greenwich St (btwn Spriag/Canal);
10 pm; 110; rovp 0415*00
GLEN RUSSELL ghrae a Claaa la
damonatration of microacopa tech-
CENTER KIDS (aai to iraat A<
taro. New Jartay; NJ Tpke, a«rt 7A;
wait tar oteero at antranca botwaan
noon G till pm; bring towolo If you
plan to go on tho water ridee; 920-
7310 for Info
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS:
Baacb Day at Wit Part. 10 am
IktM “ ■ — *
11am
109 7th Ave (ot
PraaldonttehSpm
Otetepaa Alamo, top Root, 444 fth at at
7th Aim. Park Slope. BUy* 7J0 pm
Daacteg at Specfnm. 802 M St at Hi
Aa^BayRMoABkVcSJOpm
SAL infcVnvp 71*385-7578
ROGER AN0 TERRY MILAN pretent
6AYMEN ANO LESBIANS
BROOKHAVEN Waaaaa t Oraap P,
Party, on U. 5(6/751-2301
IRISH LESBIAN ANO GAY ORGANIZA¬
TION Monthly M«ode«. «tho Canter.
208 W 13 Sc 1 -4JO pm; Paul 71*495
1479 or Anno 718/462-1527; or write
1160, Bon 4278 NYC 18185 (1180 meet-
Inge OCT * NOV 3, DEC 1)
ASIANS ANO FMENOS/NY
Nlgla Oat for TVa, TBa. TSi and
their frianda; at the Cantor. 208 W IS St
•'ll pm; for Mo land SASE to B<a 388.
BraoWyn. NY 11235
FIRE ISLAND BUDOIES Seppert aad
Houo«7J0pffl
EAST END 6AY ORGANIZATION and
THE UNOA LEIBMAH HUMAN RIGHTS
FUND prater* Anwfate • rupad raid¬
ing of Paul ZtedaTa now play, marring
followed by a doaten recaption with
tea actori. a benefit far tea AK)S Treat¬
ment Canter at Stony Brook umvoraky
Hoapltal and the Loablan Moratory
Archfcet Budding Fund; at Eatt Hamp¬
ton High School Theatre, long Lena.
EH, U; 8 pm; S40 advanca/SSO door;
51*537 2480 (Chacka to LLHRF, Boa 708,
Brldgahampton, NY 11032; tttn:
m)
NINTH STREET CENTER *011001 Quae-
tlona. Outer Antwtrt* Dltcaailoa
Oraap, a dlffarant facilltettr aach
oven** 318 E 9 St. baaamanc I-10 pec
228-5153 (Thara It *140 a Tuaadey
SUNDAY. AUG. 26
CENTER KIDS Keefe la Pieepeoi
Brooklyn; bring blanket, lunch, your
kida and friondc ( St and Proapoct Park
Worn antranca (F to 7th Avo In BkJyn.
2/3 to Grand Army Plonk noon, look lor
; call 920-7310 far Mo
WOMEN ABOUT
m Flaking at Freeport, U; carp
needed; Mo from Ana. 718/7250747
Botch. Swim aad Crated at Jonat
Botch; Info/ravp 201/481-0440
August 29.1990 OUTTWEK 71
StlatfchAmLBUyn; 1130 am.
Brooklyn Alt Hum, w«th • guidad
tour by an art hiatertan SAl member.
SAL InftYrtvp 7HM6-757I
MEN OF AU COLORS TOGETHER/NY
MkI Plede la *• RnmMn. Ca-ral
Park; antar at CPW and 72 St baar
tight. or CPW and II St baa/ la* 2 pm;
2221794 (Edltori lexical not* HamWa
la dngdw. Jn more way* than ana.)
'« a aory tom Too today a
but wAara MOca la aolrictao. «noi am
Barcbflald. Vlaea Caraaa and Malt
CeMaa: tha aacand vltm tha darangad
Oaavat family a» TV fama, with Owaa
PYRAMID PRODUCTIONS calabrataa
Worn*. Comli Tf*Ur. tonight Adri-
•a Weddy with bar Sandal ~
X BAR praaano tha video. The
WOMEN S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY
CENTER MaaaMgM Cruiae let taaMaaa,
•ailing from Fraaport U; buffet dinner,
dancing, aura, <aa. romance; 7-11 pat
S45. nyp now. JIS/413-2050 (Editor a
neo This la WACC • biggatt fundrador
el tha year, and tha Farmara Almanac
MONDmTaUG.27
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Eveaiag Faa Raa la Praia act Fart.
maat at PP Wait B *th St Utayatta
atatua (or catch up an roufdl; 7 pm:
Maftol 711/915-7579
LAVENDER U6HT 6 OS PEL CHOIR Pi
TUESDAY. AUG. 28
NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Fra* F
Wbifcabap Dark Star Crmn. i*a VD
BAY MEN S HEALTH CRISIS HIV
H M |tii SmrIaac M*4ical TrvAlMits.
onigm and every 4ih Tuaaday: 129 W
20 St. 3rd Floor. 7 pat; Ira*: 907-8555.
TDD 045-7470
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DANCING OUT
Monday
Prtw** Eyes (Marc Bartley's Kool Komndsvd Raw Sharp & itnppar*.
•ludama. professions* JS| 12W21 St dub20B-7772
Tuesday
n»*a Machine (Larry Taa & Lahoma VanZandtyoung 4 exobc crowd)
880 B*«y. et17 St. 254-4005
•Mvttt Eyas [Rock 'o ' Rod Drag Bar. first a in drag ara paid CO each to
amar. 87 tor others) 12 W 21 St. btwn Stfvfth Avas; 208-7772
**«? (Man on Mftaafc gay rolar skating; Barts 8 pm) 515 W18 Sc 646-SIS
Wednesday
•Bass* Days (primarily gay man of color) 316W48St(V9 Avast. 2458905
*Uaalige(Michael Ahg & Larry Tees Ohio C,rc us: Tba World*
Human Odd htaa, 10 pm, $10) SdiAva at 20 St;; club 807-7850
Wvaaa Eyas {YMVA Night: student*. profession its, lesbians and non¬
gay woman; f7) 12 W 21 St. btwn SttVWi Avas; 208-7772
fynwdd (Linda's Cham* eg party. OJ&bve lasbiaiVgay shows; East
VSaga crowd; 88) 101 Avenue A, btvvn(V7 Streets; 420-15*
Mckl (mallow non-gay guys, low-key gays, their woman friends; gats
gayer later) 6 Hubert St; 825-2442
SIMr Lining (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun. woman SAT) 175 Cherry
U, Floral Pk.U; 51W54-9641
*Sod-0-Mee (Lahoma Van Zandt pom stars, go-go boys; opens 10*
pm. 88 AUG 151810 thereafter) 565 W 23 St (11th Aveh 388-5253
•Mi (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily! 202 Westchester Ava, White Ptainr.
914/781-31*
Thursday
f apa ce beea (last Thu. of the month Susanna Battsch party, next is
August 3ft Iffy door) 10 E * St at Fifth Ava; 758-8010
bcaflbm (81 drinks, also open Tuee-Sun. woman WED) corner lOtfVJsf-
H-dUjT ^ to0tb * 11 ,udkim - Hot > ok » n - NJ; 201-785-1181
on TUE & FFU) 128-10 Queans Bhd. Kaw eardanMLsnns*7t 6761-6484
(hlckl (Chip Ducketts Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson. 5 blocks
below Canal); 825-2442
Friday
ColMbie Dance* (1 st Friday of every month, including summer, next ia
September 7) 118th St 4 Sway. 854-3574 days
Maat (AJdo Hernandez's atfmata Fridays, next is August 31; DJ. go-go
boys, videos; opens 10 pm; 88) 432 W 14 St; 408-1114
Oetegee (Patrick's Friday Night Jam Suasion, primarily gay men of color,
free muchiea; opens 11 pm) 565 W 33 St *47-04*
Prtvaaa Eyas ( YMVA Night students, professionals. men) 12 W 21 St
btwn 5ttv«th Avas; 208-7772
•QaickI I Party Gkxflar. TVs, gays, straights) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5
blocks below Canal); 925-2442
Saturday
Beraimii BeegiaTsmoka 4 alcohol keel 434 8th Am (btwn *10 Stsh 832-6759
41* 419 N. Highway. Southampton. U; 518783^5*1
Use Zona (dancing 4 performers) 70 Beach St Staten Wand; 714442-5682
Private Eyes ( YMVA Night students, professionals, man; CLOSED UhfTll
8EPT 8) 12 W 21 St btwn 5tfy*h Avas; 206-7772
**®nr (gays/TVa/ckib kJds. some non-gay, especially woman; ndx
depends on party) S15 W18 St (btwn 1(V11 Avesh 645-5158
SeeM Factory (mostly gey, serious Houta/Qub dancing, no alcohoL
opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (lOtlVI 1th Avas); 843-0728
Sunday
*»atM Oeye (primarily gay man of color) 316 W 48 St (49 Avas); 2454925
The Beilding (Old) Bed's Tba Man's Room, students, professionals, mart
go-go boys 4 80-ft ceding) 51 W 28 St 578-18*
d Station [CtobPrida Taa Dance with DJ Kevin 'Melodious'; catering to
gay man of color, opens 8 pm; 87) 220 12th Ava at 27 St; info 7144227
•Mass ( Paradisa Gangs Night) 13 St 4 West Side Hwy, 8*14282
^Pyramid (Junior's Taa Dance S-S pm. Day Cabaret at midnight; 86) 101
Avenue A. btwn VI Streets; 42D-15*
•fioxy (A Groovy Kind of Love, students, club kids, hunks, men) 515 W18
St 645-5156
2470 (Michael Faaco's Taa Oanca, opens 5 put 16; free Mimosas 4 BMs
from 5-7, buff* st 730) 20 W 20 St 7274841
Every Night (or almost)
41* (nightly Gay Hmtaa Party, opens 6 pm) 419 N. Highway (Rta 27),
Southampton. U; 51*783-5*1
Greed Central (closed Mon 4 Tuas, 2-4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Marrick
Road. Rockv.Ha Centra. U; 514'S36-48W
Magic Touch (ethnic mix Angta/UtWAaian) 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson
Haights. Queans; 714 429 8805
Moessar (West Village) M Grove St at Sheridan Sq., 924-3557
S pa O esa (dosed Mon-Tue, WED free, THU free 4 2-4-1 drinks, FRI rryf
atrip, SAT record stars, SUN variety show 4 free *-10 pm; Coon
served) 802 64th St O 8tti Ava. Bay Ridge, Bktyn; 7147384213
DANCING OUT for Women
Tuesday
Hatfield’s 126-10 Qusens Btvd., Kaw Gvdens; 7147814464
Brand Ceatrai (woman's night also open Wad-Sun) 210 Marrick Road.
Rockvida Centra, LI; 514/536-48*
Wednesday
Bedrock 121 WOodfieB RdL W. Hampstead. U; 516/486-9616
ExcalSer ILadiaa Night 81 drinks) corner 10WJefferson behind football
stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Private Eyes (Shescape Altanvort Party. 5-10 pm; 86 before 7 pm. 87
after) 12 W 21 St info 6454479, club 206-7772
Thursday
Bedrock 121 WoodftaW Rd. W. Hampstead. U; 514486-9616
Pyt«Wd (Jannyli Q* Bar. 8 pm - 2 ami K)1 Avenue A (btwn 67 Stale ft 475-3638
Friday
Bedrock 121 Woodfleld Rd, W. Hempstead, U; 514486-9516
Ok Clak (Jocelyn 4 Julia s ahamata Fridays, next is August 24; go-go
gkis, Itsbo erode videos; 8 pm; 86) 432 W14 St 406-1114
Hatfield's 126-10 Quetns Bivd, Kaw Gardens; 7147814464
MIHsmIm {Lamas'Night 1770 NY Ava Oka 1104 Hundngton. U 514361-1402
Vlaieat 5641 Queans Bivd. Woodax)*; info 714446-7131. club 71478*4031
Saturday
Bedrock 121 Woodfnrid Rd. W. Hampstead, U;514486-9516
Chapel at Limeii^t (Shescape party. Chapel garden entrance; opens 9
pm; 88) 49 W 20 St at 6th Ava; 6454479
Sihmr Lining 175 Cherry Lana, Floral Park, LI; 514054-9641
Stan 836 Grand Boulevard. Dear Park. U; 514742-3857
Sunday
Bedrock 121 Woodfiald Rd. W. Hampstead. U; 514486-9516
Cave Canam (Sandwich Stiff Sundays! 241st Ava at 1 at St 529-9665
CM Paradise (Pyramid Productions. 6 pm - 2 am. 85 before 8 pnV87
thereafter) 15 Waverty Plica (btwn 5th AvVB wsy); 533-3048
lava Shack (Jill Raker's Booby Tnp. tksrnsdvs music. S3) st New Us-
411st Avenue at 2nd St 777-9477
Eve ry Night (or almost)
Oeckm II (small dance floor) Sheridan Sq & 7th Ava South; 242-14*
Spactrom (closad Mon 8i Tuas; good gay/lasbian mta. sea Evary Night
above, for dstais) 902 64th St Bklyn; 7147364213
■Wtorih tfea iov towietai
A (•) donorat s c L>b diet altrtcts TVa
u*ass tahandm nmd Ad m a ti o n a ^
SomaetoSe, aspacMy Copacabana. but alto Roxy. QulcU. Loro Machine. Umo-
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August 29,1990 0UTTWEK 73
PUBLIC THEATER
0.1* Fat Cat. 281W. 12th St. 243-9041 Candle Bar. 309 Amsterdam Aw.. 074-9155
Duchess H. 70 Grow St (7ft Awl 242-1406 (Woman) Cart. 730 8th Aw.. 221-7589
Dugout 185 Christopher St. 242-9113 (formerly Don't Tall Mama. 343 W 46th St. 757-0788
tf * R * WKl1 Gents. 360 W 42 St (9th Awl. 967-0658
Eighty Eights. 228W10 St. 924-0068
J* (The Hangout! 675 fedxn St. 242-9292
Julius. 159W. 10th St. 929-9672
Keller's. 384 West St (at Christopher! 243-1907
Kelly* Village West. 46 8edtord St. 329-9322
Marie* Crisis. 59 Grow St (7th Aw! 243-9323
The Monster. 80 Grow St (7th Aw.! 924-3558
New Jimmy's. 53 Christopher. 4634)950
Ninth Circle. 139 W. 10* St, 243-9204
Sneakers. 392 West St. 242-9830.
Two Potato. 145 Christopher St, 242-9340.
Ty*. 114 Christopher.741-9641.
Unde Cherfie*. 56 Greenwich Aw,
Berbery Coast 64 7th Aw. (14th SlL 6768386
The Break. 232 8th Aw. (22nd St|. 627-0072.
Chelsea Transfer. 131 8th Aw. (bat 16th & 17th!
929-7183
Eagle* Nast 14211th Aw (21 st St! 691-6451
Private Eyes. 12 W. 21st St (bet 5th & 6th).
206-7770
Rawhide. 212 8th Aw, (21st St! unlisted.
Spike. 12011th Aw, 243-9688
Bogart's. 320 E. 59th St. 6868534
Brandy's Piano Bar. 2351 B4th St, 650-1944
GJi Club. 353 E. 53rd St. 223-9752
Johnny* Pub. 123 L 47th St. 3556714
NY Confidential. 306 E 49 St. 306-8390
Regent East. 204 E. 58th St. 3569465
Rounds. 303 E. 53rd St. 5834)807
South Dakota. 406 3rd Aw, 6848376
Star Sapphire. 400 E 59th St, 6864710
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St. 7544649
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 laringlon Aw, 6868299
The Arsw (to CaModt 28! 673 Hudnn St (bet
13th& 14thl 627-1140— JenvortrUr dosed
Badlands, Christopher & West St. 741-9236
Boots & Saddle. 76 Christopher St, 929-9684
Cellbtodt 28. 28 9th Aw. 733-3144 —open on $
limited bew call for Mo
The Cubbyhole. 438 Hudson (Morton St).
2439079 (Now for Men)
Crazy Nanny's. 21 7th Avenue South. 3866312
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Boy Bar. 15 St Mark* Pt, 674-7959
The Pyramid. 101 Awnue A. 4261590
Tunnel Bat 1161st Are (7th St! 777-9232
After Fiw Phis. 5 Front St, 852-0139
Spectrum. 802 64th St (at 8th Aw! 7469611
Sweet Sensations. 6322 20th St. 4362580
Hatfield*. 12610 Queens Bhd, Kew Gardens.
261-8484
Hideaway. 87-36 Psnons Bhd, Jamaica. 857-4586
Low Boat 774)2 Broadway. Elmhurst 4268670
Magic Toudx 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts.4268G06
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Sendcastfe. 86 Mills Aue, (718)447-9366
WESTCHESTER (914) _
Playroom. 500 Nepperhen Aw.. Yonkers. 966-6900
S&/a2C2VVe*tt*e*WA*.V
LONG ISLAND—NASSAU (516)
Bedrock. 121 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead.
486-9516
Blanche. 47-2 Boundary Ave, Farmingdale.
694-6906
Grand Central. 210 Marridk BdL Rockville Centre. '
536-4800
MJoay^2C7Janaalany4e. North Ba6TDe,7869B01
SlwUnina 175 Oanylanei Near Hyde FM;3G48641
Station Hwn Pub, 3547 Merrick Rd, Saaford.
785-9808
LONG ISLAND—SUFFOLK (516)
419,419 North Highway (Ri 271 Southampton.
283-5001
Bunthouse. 192 N. Main Sl Seville. 567-2865
ChenyY. Bayview Wak. Cherry 9rove, fl. 587-6820
Club Swamp Diacc/Anw Restaurant. Montauk
Hwy.Wainecott. 537-3332
lea Palace, Chany Grove Beach Oub, R. 587-6600
10 ml 161 Farmenke Dr, lake Rorkontoma, 467-9773
Club 6081608 Sunriee Hwy, W. Babylon.. 661-9680
Millennium. 1770 NY Ave. Huntirgton. 351-1402
Start 836 Grand Boulevard, Dear Part. 242-3857 j
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Feethert, 77 Bndertamadc Rd, River Edge,
342-6410
Fdertfyt Bar. 6310 Pert Ave . Wett New York,
ExcaHur. 10th & Jeffmon. Hobokan. NJL 796-1161
Nha Uta. 509 22nd St, Union Cby. 863-9515
Vibrations. 165 Cedar Lana. Teaneck.
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Call 289-1311.
Mention OUTWEEK for Special
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PHOTOGRAPHY
CUSTOM VIDEOS
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Anything goes. You KEEP tha tape.
Discretion assured. Sand to 380
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
•Palo Alto to Son Joaa*
Uv» and work in ths
‘Silicon Vallay*
45 minutas to IF.
For Parsonal Raal Eatata Sarvica
Cal and ask for
RIC PARKER
Ra/Max S.bcon Valtay
(406)325-9673 (409(292-5190
THE 90' UVE
THE FACTORY
Mock. Opan city vtswt, plus an
■ncrsdMs SOOSF privats dackad roof.
High csitings/drsmsbc. A moat aaal
Asking S420K
929-6700 Chm
GR/V1UAGE-CHRISTOPHER ST
Largs 1 BR 17X 12; LA 33X12. Qk rim
viawa, south & wast axpos. Postwar
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mis. Ons of ths prstbast spots in
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IAS VEGAS
LEE PlOTKm
CokTwatl Banker
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(702)871-9300 (702)970-5778
for your real estate needs in
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cal
BoWR) or Oon(RA)
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808-822-3282 FAX 808822-9088
SAN FRANCISCO APARTMENT
Euro-Link (rag. trademark sign)
Castro
Garden cottage studios
All amtnitits- Quiai
Private. Wafc to everything.
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415-981-3220
fax 415828-2833
PHOENIX
iratial Real Estate
David Atkins
Blue Ribbon Raalty
(HX6021266-0479 (0X602)283-9696
HATE BROKERS?
At last there's an understanding.
1000 ’s of apartments and 1000's of
customers.
Ptaasa call Philip (212)3080870
WEST PALM BEACH
TOM DAVIS AND
KETTELLE
(0X407)832-4863 (0X407)832-4863
(MX407833-0142 |HX407)5868686
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GREATER PORTLAND AREA
Residential. Commercial or Invest¬
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7417 SW Beaverton Hwy.
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My specialty.
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(714)404-0215 (714)240-2035
DEAt EDTATE
ERA*METES&
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SERVING THE WEST VILLAGE
Studio* to lofts ♦ coops to condos. 1
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DISTINCTIVE DECO APARTMENTS
VINTAGE PROPERTIES. 1801
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Jamas Harrison, Ph.D, Director
Gay Affirmative, Individual.
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Insuanc* accepted
123 Waat 44th St, PGL-A
(212) 3548848, 5884826
PSYCHOTHERAPY
For all Lesbian/Say issues
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Also am. single, w4dy 399.38 ♦ tax
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212-213-1484
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friendliest place to stay. Fun bar.
Charming rooms. Just 358 single or
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THE WILLOWS
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The warmth A comfort of s European
Country Inn with breakfast in bed.
TRAVEL
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Convenient to: Castro, Haight
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800-SF-NOLAN
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service.
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415-431-4770
After Summer...
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with 19 lovefy rooms. 100 scenic
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6 f.es A JudL Innkeeper*
August 29,1990 OLTHTWEEK
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KEY WEST
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Colonial House Inn
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OH
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young 77 for e strong
Swednh massage
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By handsome Italian
TED (212)721-6718
A MATTS MAN
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serious pro node Wod deep tissue
body rub ♦ by handsome young (16s)
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20 yrs.. slim swimmer 77, 137 lbs.
Smooth - Boyish - Brown hair, blue
oyat.
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JIM (212) 751-4280
HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
Transcend and transform inner and
outer
artistic energy end power. Various
styles tailor-designed for indwiduel
preferences. (NO SEXI)
Novices, experienced, women and
men.
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MIDEIS/ESCHT5
VENEZUALAN BOY
Beautiful Young South
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Endowed. Friendly
From $100
Beeper #212-458-4035
After 3 beeps punch
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fTAU AN/INDIAN
10 1/2 inches of thick cock
goodfooking 21 yr. old
new to New York Dry
Incalla/Outcelts 212-427-3380
My aim it to pleeselll
BODYBUILDER
COMPETITIVE
26 yrs. 77.
225 to., huge
pace, monster legs
XX hung taken
Kris 212-213-8657
BODYBUILDING CHAMPION ft
NP.C.
tide holder available. Colt Model
name Teddy 6arr alto available by
appointment Call 212-675-1161
Theta boys ere hot & hung muscle-
menl
RAVEN-HAIRED HUNK
Muscle gstore! Mt_. 190 lb*.. 8
inches
UNCUT. Smooth end delicious. Safe
erotic
fantesiei tough or tender. Very
friendly.
SEAN (212)789-3797.
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Sensual strong. Beginners
welcomed.
LEGENDS
Men Worth Remembering
AMX. VISA. MC
(212)222-9849
HOT AND HANDSOME
Boyishly good looking 22yr old will
provide good time* and compamon-
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Friendly, intelligent and HOT. CALL
ANYTIME.
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THE FANTASY SERVICE
We fil your every fantasy
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AFTER I MEET
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ooof, exceptional
brains, clever¬
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singular personal
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view. Artistic
optional. Me?-
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but seasonally
tanned skin, and
hereelf & about
who she is with. I
am very athletic,
sincere and
excited about Bte
& about meeting
a sexy woman to
share meaningful
experiences with.
PH/PH Outweek
Box 2901
I'VE WAITED
LONG ENOUGH
TO WRITE THIS
AD
Every lesbian in
this city is already
involved, so I
figure why not
take this opportu¬
nity to fulfil a
fantasy of mine.
Why not advertise
for a COUPLE7I
It's kinda racy, I
know, a little
nutsy. but I'm into
it So. the stats:
I'm 23, GWF,
good body (he«, I
enjoy it!), drk
brown hair &
laugh & bring out
the nut In shy
women and get
into a frenzy with
like-witted lofts. I
say what I mean
& appreciate the
same in others;
there is too much
to write—23
C l's worth of
is not easily
slashed down to
a 2-3 inch per¬
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ad . anyway, if
this has caught
your eye & you
feel as adventur¬
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a fun photo &
telling letter
about yourselves.
Perhaps mutual
earthly delights
can be met I've
taken the first
step, now M’s
your turn. Clean
fun—no drugs.
Pref. nonsmok¬
ers. Don’t
hesitate...
Outweek Box
2894
moderate-to-high
vibrational
frequency to
collaborate and
learn and play
together. Photo/
letter. Outweek
SINGLE GWF, 25
YRS., 6FT,
androgynous,
very attractive,
real, ambitious,
honest gainfully
employed,
interested in a
nonaddictive
friendship/
relationship with
an older, prefer-
ebly Jewish, sexy,
voluptuous
woman who
enjoys wearing
high heels, and
passionate
weekends in the
Hamptons. Please
ally stable women
who enjoy and are
passionate about
to. Photo & note
please I'd love to
sweep you off
your feet. I'm a
true romantic.
Outweek Box
2812
SENSUOUS
TOMBOY 30
YRS,
seeks lesbian 25-
35 to date.
Seven-Sisters’
educated. I no
longer drink/
smoke. Outweek
Box 2805
ONCE UPON A
TIME
an attractive 27yr
old black woman
awoke to discover
herself a lesbian.
Immediately,
while laying in
bed she threw a
party for hereelf.
Believe it or not,
the celebration
continues. Want
to come? RSVP
with photo.
Outweek Box
2514
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make you thlr*.
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widower wants &
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relationship.
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getting to know
someone and ni
afraid of com-
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cooking, I am
romantic.
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WHITE, GOOD
CONDITION
about 250,000
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goodlooking
ednor/writer
seeks solid sexy
self-aware guy
who appreciates
HERSHEY
ALLEY
GWM. 38. 195,
5-1T. BFVBR
French active &
passive. Greek
passive, will give
It to you the way
you ms IL You
should be Greek
active, smooth A
Safe sex only.
AnVphoto/phone/
letter to«A LTS
20276
. NYC 10011-
9993
NEW IN TOWN
GWM, 21. 6 T.
180, bVgr. Recent
Ivy grad, boy-
next-door type.
Sensitive,
concerned,
activism-oriented,
loves movies A
music. Noidt
friends, wants a
boyfriend (btond/
tall a plus). Send
wicked witch. Tel
the story the way
you would write It.
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good tones
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wrestling?) In my
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or night Ph
oto or description
to: TJ. Box 112.
Executive Suite.
330 W. 42nd St.
NYC 10036.
MASCULINE
WGM 45 YO
Athletic and
outgoing seeks a
beautiful hunk
who Is hung and
B8 type. You: 6'
HANSEL AND
GRETEL
GWM. 38. 195#. I
wil be Haneel
and you are
ME: CHUBBY
GWM
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3093
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other aware man
tor loving
relationship. I'm
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156 R» br/br
average looks,
enjoys arts,
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plants. Frienfshky
relationship. POB
1248, Union, New
Jersey 07063-
9998
LOOKING FOR A
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eyes smart, funny
editor/writer
seeks solid sexy
self-aware guy
who appreciates
things and
people. Object
matrimony.
Outweek Box
3056
HERSHEY
ALLEY
GWM. 38. 195.
5'ir, BFVBR
French active &
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it to you the way
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both too shy. You
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Outweek Box
3165
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growing rel
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2837
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